Contributions to physical and medical knowledge, principally from the West of England / collected by Thomas Beddoes.

Date:
1799
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Credit: Contributions to physical and medical knowledge, principally from the West of England / collected by Thomas Beddoes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    0/ Phosoxygen, or Oxygen Gas. This gas (firft difcovered by the immortal Prieftley) the great Lavoilier lappofed to be oxygen combined with caloric, arid on this fuppofition his theory of combutlion is founded. The non-exiftence of caloric, or the fluid of heat, has been- proved, and the materiality of light dernonftrated. Light is liberated during the oxygenation of certain bodies, as the' following experirrients will prove. / EXPERIMENT V. The repulflve motion of carbon in contadl with phofoxygen (oxygen gas) was increafed by a burning glafs, till it became luminous; the carbon was rapidly diminifhed with the libera-