 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 618 pagina’s
...gases may still be occasioned by diem. Oxygen and hydrogen gases unite-slowly with one another when exposed to a temperature above the boiling point of...platinum causes them to unite slowly, though mixed with 100 times dieir bulk of oxygen gas, A verr high temperature ia excited by die combustion of hydrogen... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1831 - 628 pagina’s
...gases may still be occasioned by them. Oxygen and hydrogen gases unite slowly wilb one another when exposed to a temperature above the boiling point of...platinum causes them to unite slowly, though mixed with 100 times their bulk of oxygen gas. A very high temperature is excited by the combustion of hydrogen... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1831 - 620 pagina’s
...gases may still be occasioned by them. Oxygen and hydrogen gases unite slowly with one another when exposed to a temperature above the boiling point of...too. great a degree to explode by electricity, is jnade to unite silently by a succession of electric sparks. Spongy platinum causes them to unite slowly,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 626 pagina’s
...slowly with one another wiien exposed to a temperature above the boiling point of mercury, and Mow that at which glass begins to appear luminous in the...unite silently by a succession of electric sparks. Spougy platinum causes them to unite slowly, fljoiigh mixed with 100 times then- bulk of oxygen gas.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1831 - 620 pagina’s
...exposed to a temperature above the boiling point of ineirmy, and below that at which glass begin» t" appear luminous in the dark. An explosive mixture, diluted with air to ton great a degree to explode by electricity, is ¡if. :• to unite silently by a succession of eleclrio... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - 1834 - 440 pagina’s
...flame, or a body heated to bright redness, it nevertheless does quietly combine with that substance, when they are exposed to a temperature above the boiling...which glass begins to appear luminous in the dark. Hydrogen also silently unites with oxygen, by a succession of electric sparks, when diluted with too... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 524 pagina’s
...gases may still be occasioned by them. Oxygen and hydrogen gases unite slowly with one another when exposed to a temperature above the boiling point of...luminous in the dark. An explosive mixture, diluted widi air to too great a degree to explode by electricity, is made to unite silently by a succession... | |
 | John White Webster - 1839 - 592 pagina’s
...combination be-siowcomtween the gases may still be occasioned by them. Davy observed that bination. oxygen and hydrogen gases unite slowly with one another,...below that at which glass begins to appear luminous ¡n the dark. An explosive mixture, diluted with air to too great a degree to explode by electricity,... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - 1839 - 606 pagina’s
...unite slowly in the same proportions, when they are exposed to a temperature above the boiling-point of mercury, and below that at which glass begins to appear luminous in the dark. § 448. But though the composition of substances is thus definite and limited, it by no means follows... | |
 | George Brewster - 1843 - 268 pagina’s
...that at which glass begibs to appear luminous in the dark. An explosive mixture, diluted with»air to too great a degree to explode by electricity, is...Spongy platinum causes them to unite slowly though mjzed with one hundred times their bulk of oxygen gas." Ijn the examination of tins subject, and in... | |
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When the action of heat, the electric spark and spongy platinum no longer cause an explosion, a silent and gradual combination between the gases may still be occasioned by them. Oxygen and hydrogen gases unite slowly with one another when exposed to a... 