 | Sir William Augustus Tilden - 1876 - 316 pages
...known to man in a more or less practical form from very early times. The alchemists extended the art of chemistry by the discovery of the processes for...combines with carbon, forming two oxides of carbon. Jn the one, three parts by weight of carbon are united to four parts of oxygen, whilst in the other... | |
 | Arabella Burton Fisher - 1879 - 550 pages
...comes from rain, snow, dew, steam, or exploded oxygen and hydrogen, will always be found to contain two parts by weight of hydrogen to sixteen parts by weight of oxygen ; so that if you decompose 1 8 ounces of water you will collect 2 volumes of hydrogen weighing I oz.... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 760 pages
...collecting the water in a weighed chloride of calcium tube. Show approximately that water contains two parts by weight of hydrogen to sixteen parts by weight of oxygen. 12. Note the first law of chemical combination : that chemical compounds, Mich as water, always contain... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 688 pages
...collecting the water in a weighed chloride of calcium tube. Show approximately that water contains two parts by weight of hydrogen to sixteen parts by weight of oxygen. 12. Note the first law of chemical combination : that chemical compounds, Mich as water, always contain... | |
 | Sir Francis Watts - 1892 - 170 pages
...water is found by experiment to be composed of the elements oxygen and hydrogen, and also to contain two parts by weight of hydrogen to sixteen parts by weight of oxygen. These facts are represented by the symbol H,O.* * For a full explanation of this subject any good elementary... | |
 | Arabella Burton Buckley - 1893 - 548 pages
...comes from rain, snow, dew, steam, or exploded oxygen and hydrogen, will always be found to contain two parts by weight of hydrogen to sixteen parts by weight of oxygen ; so that if you decompose 18 ounces of water you will collect 2 volumes of hydrogen weighing I oz.... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 650 pages
...collecting the water in a weighed chloride of calcium tube. Show approximately that water contains two parts by weight of hydrogen to sixteen parts by weight of oxygen. 12. Note the first law of chemical combination : that chemical compounds, such as water, always contain... | |
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... been entirely reduced, the tube weighing the same as before passing the oxygen through it. 11. Determine the composition of water by weight by passing dry hydrogen over half an ounce of copper oxide, and collecting the water in a weighed chloride... 