 | 1817 - 364 pages
...composed of five proportions of oxygene and one of nitrogene it altogether hypothetical ; and it is a simple statement of facts to say, that liquid nitric acid is a compound of two proportions of hydrogene, one of azote, and six of oxygene ; and, as I showed long ago, the only difference between... | |
 | 1817 - 382 pages
...composed of five proportions of oxygene and one of nitrogene is altogether hypothetical ; and it is a simple statement of facts to say, that liquid nitric acid is a compound of two proportions of hydrogene, one of azote, and six of oxygene ; and, as I shewed long ago, the only difference between... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 418 pages
...IT. posed of five proportions of oxygen and one of nitrogen, is altogether hypothetical; and it is a simple statement of facts to say, that liquid nitric acid is a compound of one prime equivalent of hydrogen, one of azote, and six of oxygen. (Such acid has a sp. gr. considerably... | |
 | 1822 - 502 pages
...and on the constitution of acids," published in the first volume of this Journal. Thus ; " it is a simple statement of facts to say, that liquid nitric...of azote, and the other a proportion of chlorine," p. 287. And, with regard to these decompositions and recompositions, they are mere fictions conjured... | |
 | Thomas Martin Lowry - 1915 - 610 pages
...theory " of acids was foreshadowed, in 1816, by Davy (Works, V. 514 — 515), who regarded it as " a simple statement of facts to say that liquid nitric acid is a compound of ... hydrogen . . . azote and . . . oxygen," and suggested that " hydrogen in [an] acid, may be considered... | |
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I shewed long ago, the only difference between nitre and hyper-oxymuriate of potash is, that one contains a proportion of azote, and the other a proportion of chlorine. 