 | George S. Newth - 1895 - 696 páginas
...contaminated. Cavendish filled a graduated btll-jar with a mixture of hydro- FIG. 37. gtn and oxygen, in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of oxygen, and he attached to the bell-jar a stout glass vessel, resembling the pear-shaped apparatus... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Simmons - 1896 - 362 páginas
...CHAPTER IX. Composition of Water. — Water is composed of two elements — hydrogen and oxygen — in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter. Analysis Water «'hen traversed by ibk . f Hydrogen Oxygen j an electric current J ' \. (2... | |
 | 1899 - 802 páginas
...j;iven two gas-bags, one full of nitrous oxide and the other full of a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter, how would you dis tinguish them by simple tests ? 5. Calculate the volume of air required for... | |
 | John Walter Wilkinson - 1900 - 396 páginas
...Wurtz. Physical Geography, Dryer. IV. WATER WATER is composed of two substances, hydrogen and oxygen, in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter. A fresh living plant consists largely of water. Young grass and fresh potatoes are about three... | |
 | 1905 - 602 páginas
...how the presence of lead may be detected in potable water. 9 When hydrogen and oxygen are combined in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter, what change takes place? 10 Write the formula of potassium cyanid. Mention the properties of... | |
 | Ethel Roberts - 1911 - 264 páginas
...probability the former." So although Cavendish really proved that pure water consists of hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter, being misled by the phlogiston theory he failed to grasp the full significance of his results,... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1912 - 822 páginas
...of combustion when hydrogen burns in air or oxygen, and that if a ' mixture of hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter were burnt, the whole of the gases were converted into water. Sources. Hydrogen occurs free... | |
 | Charles Henderson Melville - 1912 - 446 páginas
...is procurable. CHAPTER IX WATER WATER, considered chemically, is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter. Considered physically, it is a fluid which is incompressible, and seeks to find its own level... | |
 | Valentine Edward Johnson - 1913 - 214 páginas
...chlorine and hydrogen are exploded by the electric spark, so also are hydrogen and oxygen gas when mixed in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter. Even coal gas, mixed with four to ten times its own volume of ordinary air, can be similarly... | |
 | Arthur Alphonzo Blanchard, Frank Bertram Wade - 1914 - 460 páginas
...sodium sulphate, for example, the products liberated are hydrogen and oxygen. These gases are evolved in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter, just as in the electrolysis of dilute sulphuric acid. We have thus a typical acid, a typical... | |
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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, is eminently explosive. 
