Philosophical empiricism : containing remarks on a charge of plagiarism respecting Dr. H----s, interspersed with various observations relating to different kinds of air / by Joseph Priestley.

  • Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.
Date:
1775
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Credit: Philosophical empiricism : containing remarks on a charge of plagiarism respecting Dr. H----s, interspersed with various observations relating to different kinds of air / by Joseph Priestley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. me with part of a quantity of earth that had been produced from diftilled water, weight for weight, by that celebrated chemift his grand¬ father, the cotemporary of Mr. Boyle* and his fellow-labourer, ' j • • v This earth, I find, yields fixed air in great plenty, by the heat of a burning lens in quick- filver, as well as by means of the acids. And when it is made into a pafte with fpirit of nitre* it yields more air, the greatefi: part of which is alfo fixed air. This experiment I barely announce at prefent, as exhibiting a new faft refpediing the generation of fixed ajr, that can ’ not be publifhed too foom THE