 | Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - 1906 - Liczba stron: 610
...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 surprized me more than I can well express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - Liczba stron: 350
...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...burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame. I was utterly at a loss how to account for it." His experiments showed him that this air "had all the... | |
 | Edward William Edmunds, John Bright Hoblyn - 1911 - Liczba stron: 298
...a view to finding its properties, and found it to be a very active " air." To use his own words, " what surprised me more than I can well express was...burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame," a fact he was " utterly at a loss to account for." At the same time that Priestley made the above experiment,... | |
 | Joseph William Mellor - 1912 - Liczba stron: 896
...that it was * That is, mercuric oxide, or red oxide of mercury. Fio. 43. — Priestley's Experiment. not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than...express, was that a candle burned in this air with a remarkable brilliant flame." Many erring steps have stumbled on the threshold of the discovery of oxygen;... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams - 1912 - Liczba stron: 380
...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 than I can express was that a canJOSEPH PRIESTLEY (From a painting by Gilbert Stewart.) dle burned in this air... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - Liczba stron: 526
...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 than I can express was that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame, very much like that... | |
 | John Edward Mercer (bp. of Tasmania) - 1921 - Liczba stron: 272
...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...burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame. ... I was utterly at a loss how to account for it." Priestley himself, in spite of his marked originality... | |
 | Eric John Holmyard - 1925 - Liczba stron: 140
...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...that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably brilliant flame.' In general properties the gas resembled ordinary air, but it would support combustion... | |
 | Mary Swartz Rose - 1927 - Liczba stron: 528
...oxide) very rapidly. Having got about three or four times the bulk of my materials, I admitted water and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what...that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably brilliant flame." 1 Priestley had discovered a new gas, 1 Priestley, Joseph. Experiments and Observations... | |
 | J. G. Frewin - 1927 - Liczba stron: 100
...mercurius calcinatus ' (ie red oxide of Mercury) by means of a burning-glass, air was expelled from it. ' But what surprised me more than I can well express was that a candle burned in the air with a remarkable brilliant flame.' Karl Wilhelm Scheele, a Swedish chemist, is said to have... | |
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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... 
