 | Thomas Thomson - 1825 - 1052 pagina’s
...Gay-Lussac and flumboldt, that water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen gases, in the proportion of one volume of the former, to two volumes of the latter. It occurred to me that by a very careful analysis of water, the relation between the volumes and the... | |
 | Edward Turner - 1840 - 696 pagina’s
...perfectly dry carbonic acid and ammoniacal gases. In whatever proportion the two gases be mixed, they unite only in the ratio of one volume of the former to two of the latter, and condense into a white light powder. This substance, therefore, contains carbonic... | |
 | Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1841 - 314 pagina’s
...exists in the liquid form in water, in which it occurs in combination with hydrogen, in the proportion of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter gas. Oxygen is found also in the solid state : most of the mineral bodies forming the crust of the... | |
 | John Johnston - 1846 - 496 pagina’s
...has fallen, during the last six or eight years, more than fifty per cent. Carbonate of Ammonia.—The only method of preparing this compound is by mixing...direct compound of these substances as such. 879. Sesquicarbonate of Oxide of Ammonium. — This is the common carbonate of ammonia, or sal volatile... | |
 | Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1846 - 144 pagina’s
...exists in the liquid form in water, in which it occurs in combination with hydrogen in the proportion of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter gas. Oxygen is found also in the solid state : most of the mineral bodies forming the crust of the... | |
 | 1856 - 568 pagina’s
...discovered that the inhalation of oxy-hydrogen gas (a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen gases in the proportion of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter) produced anaesthesia equally as effectual as that by chloroform, not attended with the dangers said... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - 1854 - 566 pagina’s
...equivalents of organic substances* The proportions in which oxygen and hydrogen unite to form water are one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter, and these three are condensed into two volumes of the vapor of water at 212° P. As these proportions have... | |
 | 1865 - 338 pagina’s
...proportion of volume to volume, oxygen and hydrogen will unite with one another only in the proportion of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter gas. But oxygen is found to be exactly 1 6' times heavier than hydrogen ; or, taking the specific gravity... | |
 | John Joseph Griffin - 1860 - 766 pagina’s
...spark, and again measured. The loss of measure consists of oxygen and hydrogen gas, in the proportions of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter. Hence, one-third of the volume which disappears is the measure of the oxygen which was contained in... | |
 | John Joseph Griffin - 1860 - 636 pagina’s
...spark, and again measured. The loss of measure consists of oxygen and hydrogen gas, in the proportions of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter. Hence, one-third of the volume which disappears is the measure of the oxygen which was contained in... | |
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October 1804) contained the first announcement of the fact that oxygen and hydrogen unite to form water in the proportion of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter (see ATOMIC THEORY). 
