 | Joseph Priestley - 1790 - 494 pages
...that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted...and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what furprized me more than I can well exprefs, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably... | |
 | 1824 - 884 pages
...and " I presently found that air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water into it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than I can well express,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
...expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my material, I admitted water to it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than 1 can well express, was, |K«; a candle burned in this air with a remarkaKx vigorous flame, very much... | |
 | Daniel B. Smith - 1842 - 326 pages
...burning lens, " I presently found that air was expelled from it very readily. Having got three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water into it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than I can well express,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1860 - 460 pages
...means of this lens air was expelled from it very readily. Having got three or four times as much [air] as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it,...express was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame." The gas thus discovered, to which he gave the name of " dephlogisticated... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1860 - 474 pages
...words, 1 presently found that air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water into it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than I can well express... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1865 - 978 pages
...'that by means of this lens air was expelled from it very readily. Having got several times «s mnch as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that it was not imbibed lj it ; bat what surprised me more than I can well express, was that a candle burned in this air with... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1866 - 472 pages
...words, I presently found that air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water into it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than I can well express... | |
 | George William Cox - 1867 - 1002 pages
...red precipitate was contained in a flask filled up with mercury, and inverted in a basin containing the same metal. ' I presently found,' he says, 'that...express, was that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame, very much like that enlarged flame with which a candle burns in nitrous... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1867 - 974 pages
...in a basin containing the same metal. ' I presently found,' he says, 'that by means of this lens uir was expelled from it very readily. Having got several...express, was that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably viperous flame, very much like that enlarged flame with which a candle burns in nitrous... | |
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I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more... 
