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Observations on different kinds of air / by Joseph Priestley ... ; read March 5, 12, 19, 26, 1772

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Author:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Hey, William 1736-1819  Search this
Royal Society (Great Britain)  Search this
Engraver:
Basire, James 1730-1802  Search this
Former owner:
United States Patent Office Scientific Library DSI  Search this
Physical description:
p. 147-264, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1772
Notes:
Caption title.
Extracted from: Philosophical transactions, giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world, v. 62, article no. 19 (1772).
The leaf of plates is captioned "Tab. IX" and signed: Js. Basire sc.
Burndy. Science, 40
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SCDIRB copy has a few ms. annotations on p. 224.
SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Scientific Library, United States Patent Office.
SCDIRB copy has a later brown cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine and brown sprinkled edges.
Contents:
[1.] Of fixed air -- II. On air in which a candle, or brimstone, has burned out -- III. Of inflammable air -- IV. Of air infected with animal respiration, or putrefaction -- V. Of air in which a mixture of brimstone and filings of iron has stood -- VI. Of nitrous air -- VII. Of air infected with the fumes of burning charcoal -- VIII. Of the effect of the calcination of metals, and of the effluvia of paint made with white-lead and oil, on air -- IX. Of air procured by means of spirit of salt -- X. Miscellaneous observations -- [XI.] An appendix, containing an account of some experiments made by Mr. Hey, which prove that there is no oil of vitriol in water impregnated with fixed air extracted from chalk by oil of vitriol; and also a letter from Mr. Hey, to Dr. Priestley, concerning the effects of fixed air applied by way of clyster
Topic:
Air--Analysis  Search this
Combustion  Search this
Respiration  Search this
Putrefaction  Search this
Sulfuric acid  Search this
Call number:
Q41.L8 R8 v. 62 1772
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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