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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    3. By Muriate of Tin - 202 4. By Sulphurated Hydrogene - 203 5. Decompofition of Nitrous Gas by Nafcent Hydro- gene - ■ - - 206 6. Mifcellaneous Obfervations - - 209 7. Recapitulation - - 211 8. Produftioii of Nitrous Oxide from Metallic Solutions 213 9. Additional Obfervations relating to the produdtion of Nitrous Oxide - - - - 219 10 Decoinpofition of Aqua regia by platina, and evolu- tion of a gas analogous to oxygenated muriatic acid, and nitrogene _ _ _ _ 222 11. Aiftion of the eleftric fpark on a mixture of Nitro- gene and Nitrous gas, ^-9 12. General rert^rks on tlreprodudlion of Nitrous Oxide 231 RESEARCH II. Into the combinations ^Nitrous Oxide, and its decom- pojition. DIVISION I. Experiments aqd Observations on the combinations of Nitrous Oxide. 1. Combination of Water with Nitrous Oxide - 235 2. of Nitrous Oxide with fluid inflamma- ble bodies. - - - - 240 3. Aftion of fluid Acids on Nitrous Oxide - 244 4. —— of Saline Solutions - - 245 5. of Gafes _ _ _ - 248 6. Adlion of aeriform Nitrous Oxide on the alkalies— Hiftory of the difcevery of the combinations of Nitrous Oxide, with the alkalies - 254 7. Combination of Nitrous Oxide with Potafli - 262