 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1852 - 374 páginas
...of space above the fluid within the can or lamp was large, and always in the presence of flame. (5) A mixture of hydrogen (an inflammable gas) with oxygen...better suited to produce violence of explosion, (f) tuted for the hydrogen, and the explosive property remain essentially the same, though of unequal energy,... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1900 - 450 páginas
...favourably compares with that obtained by Lord Rayleigh, who, working with a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter, produced 440 grms of nitric acid in the same time with the same amount of power. When air alone... | |
 | J. H. Kellogg, John Harvey Kellogg - 2001 - 160 páginas
...chemical formula, H20, which signifies that it is composed of the two gases, hydrogen WtUr. B and oxygen, in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter. Both of these gases are colorless, transparent, tasteless, and odorless, fiydrogen is the lightest... | |
 | 1830 - 908 páginas
...ferro-cyanic acid is heated with great excess of peroxide of copper, carbonic acid and nitrogen are evolved in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter, and hence the relative quantities of nitrogen and carbon must be necessarily the same as in... | |
 | James Monteith - 1885 - 154 páginas
...surface by water. 5. Composition. — Water is composed of two gases, hydrogen and oxygen, combined in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter. It freely absorbs air and other gases, and likewise dissolves onany of the minerals of the... | |
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A mixture of hydrogen (an inflammable gas) with oxygen (an ingredient of atmospheric air), in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter... 
