 | Hollis Godfrey - 1909 - 488 sider
...receiver. The experimenter went on to test for solubility. He says, " 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." What followed, however, surprised him more. When a lighted candle was plunged into the bottle full... | |
 | Edward William Edmunds, John Bright Hoblyn - 1911 - 298 sider
...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...that a candle 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... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams - 1912 - 380 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Joseph William Mellor - 1912 - 896 sider
...lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as t In- bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it and found that it was * That is, mercuric oxide, or red oxide of mercury. Fio. 43. — Priestley's Experiment. not imbibed... | |
 | Forris Jewett Moore - 1918 - 364 sider
...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...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 air, exposed... | |
 | Joseph William Mellor - 1919 - 942 sider
...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 1 That is, mercuric oxide, or red oxide of mercury. Fio. 43. — Priestley's Experiment. not imbibed... | |
 | John Edward Mercer (bp. of Tasmania) - 1921 - 272 sider
...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...that a candle 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... | |
 | Eric John Holmyard - 1925 - 140 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Harry Fawcett Buckley - 1927 - 288 sider
...found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted...that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame ... I was utterly at a loss to account for it." He found that mice could live longer... | |
 | Mary Swartz Rose - 1927 - 528 sider
...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... | |
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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... 
