Researches, chemical and philosophical : chiefly concerning nitrous oxide, or diphlogisticated nitrous air, and its respiration / by Humphry Davy.

  • Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.
Date:
1800
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    xi. CONTENTS, Introduction, RESEARCH I. I^lo the analyfis of x\t,tric Acid and Nitrous Gas, and the produdiion o/-Nitkous Oxide. DIVISION I. ExPERmENTs and Observations on the compofuion of Nitric Acid, and on its combinations nvith Avater dfW Nitrous Gas. 1. Preliminaries - _ _ 2. Produdion of aeriform Nitrous Acid - \ \ 3. Specific gravity of Gafes - - 6 4. Experiment on the formation of Nitrous Acid ^ 11 5. Conclufions - ^ _ 6. Experiments on the combinatfon of >fitrous Gas with ^^ Nitric Acid . _ 7. Additional Experiments - . ^^ 8. Conclufions . _ £>: Mr Thomson's The6ty of the difference between ^^ JNitnc and Nitrous Acid 10. Compofition of the different Nitrous Acids - sg 11. Combination of Nitric Acid with Water . « J2. Of Nitrous Vapor - . ^^ '3. Comparifonoftherefults^withthofe of Cavendiih ^^ and Lavoifier 4^