A syllabus of a course of chemical lectures read at Guy's Hospital / [William Babington].

  • Babington, William, 1756-1833
Date:
1802
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Credit: A syllabus of a course of chemical lectures read at Guy's Hospital / [William Babington]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    <* . / // ■' / ' ' - ' 'fv'T- ’ ~J / ^ ^ ^ .. ’ ~ / / y ., { L--' ‘ C II > Serves the purpofes of Refpiraiion and C0/72- buftion in an eminent degree. In Refpiration is diminifhed in bulk in pro¬ portion to its purity, and by uniting with Car¬ bon produces Carbonic Acid Gas: hence the fuppofed function of the Lungs, and origin of Animal Heat. In Combuflion it varies in its effe&s accord¬ ing to the nature of the Combuftible Subfiance$ and the manner in which it is employed. It deftroys the fplendour and tenacity of the Metallic Bodies when they are expofed to it at a high temperature, and gives them an encreafe of weight proportioned to its own confumption: hence the modern theory of Calcination. To Sulphur, Phofphorus, and Charcoal, in the a& of burning, it communicates acid properties; which are more or lefs diflin& as the com- bullion or decompofition of the Gas has been more or lefs complete. The bafis, therefore, of this fluid confidered as the univerfally Acidifying Principle, and hence denominated Oxygen: —hence alfo the terms Oxyd, Oxydation, Oxygenation, &c. 3Jy combuflion with Hydrogen Gas (fo named from this property) it forms Waterf together with