Researches chemical and philosophical: chiefly concerning nitrous oxide or dephlogisticated nitrous air and its respiration / By Humphry Davy.

  • Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Researches chemical and philosophical: chiefly concerning nitrous oxide or dephlogisticated nitrous air and its respiration / By Humphry Davy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DIVISION II. Experiments and Observations on the compofilion 6F Ammoniac and on its combinations with Water and Nitric Acid. 1. Analyfis of Ammoniac - - - 56 2. Specific gravity of Ammoniac - - 62 3. Of the quantities‘of true Ammoniac in Ammoniacal Solutions _ - - 65 4. Comppfition of Nitrate of Ammoniac - /l 5. Decompofition of Carbonate of Ammoniac, by Nitrous Acid 7.5 5. Decompofition of Sulphate of Ammoniac by Nitre 77 6. Non-exiftence of Ammoniacal Nitrites - 79 7. Sources of error in Analyfis - - bO 8. Lofs in Solutions of Nitrate of Ammoniac during evaporation - - - - 83 DIVISION III. Decomposition of Nitrate of Ammoniac—Prepara- ration of respirable Nitrous Oxide. 1. Of the heat required for the decompofition of Nitrate of Ammoniac - - - - 84 2. Decompofition of Nitrate of Ammoniac—Produftion of refpirable Nitrcfus Oxide—its properties - 86 3. Of the Gas remaining after the abforption of Nitrous Oxide by Water - - _ _ 39 4. Specific Gravity of Nitrous Oxide - - g4 5. Analyfis of Nitrous Oxide - , _ g5 6. Minute examination of the decompofition of Nitrate of Ammoniac - 101 I 7. Of the heat produced during the decompofition of Nitrate of Ammoniac - - - 108