Essays, on the Effects Produced by Various Processes on Atmospheric Air: With a Particular View to an Investigation of the Constitution of the Acids (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Excerpt from Essays, on the Effects Produced by Various Processes on Atmospheric Air: With a Particular View to an Investigation of the Constitution of the Acids

M. Lavoisier however contends that this is not the cafe that atmofpheric air confif'rs of about i; of very pure air, and i of mephitic gas, which, when detached from its purer'portion, is no longer fit for the spurpofes of air;. And he denies that any fi>ied air' is naturally, contained in atmofpheric air, but'afierts that it proceeds from theunion Of coaly matter with the above pure part.or Dr; Prieft ley's dephlogi'i'ricated air, a term which M. Lavoifier is not altogether difpofed to admit.

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