| English literature - 1840 - 612 pages
...in it in a latent state, so as not to be sensihle to the thermometer or to the eye ; and if light be only a modification of heat, or a circumstance attending...deprived of its phlogiston, and united to elementary hettt?' — Phil. Trans. 1784, p. 333. Having thus established, on the authority of printed documents,... | |
| Dominique François J. Arago - 1839 - 290 pages
...in it in a latent state, so as not to be sensible to the thermometer or to the eye; and if light be only a modification of heat, or a circumstance attending...of its phlogiston and united to elementary heat?"* This passage, so clear, so precise, so methodical, is extracted from a letter of Watt, dated 26th April,... | |
| François Arago - Mechanization - 1839 - 154 pages
...circumstance attending it, or a component part of the inflammable air, then pure or dephlogiiticated air is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston and united to elementary heat ?" Is this not us clear, precise, and intelligible, as the conclusions of Mr Lavoisier ? — [NOTE... | |
| 1840 - 698 pages
...air rind phlogiston, deprived of their latent or elementary heat; that dephlogistiratedorpvre air it composed of water deprived of its phlogiston, and united to elementary heat and light ; that the latter are contained in it in a latent state, so asnot to besensible to the thermometer... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1841 - 344 pages
...in it in a latent slate, so as not to be sensible to the thermometer or to the eye ; and if light be only a modification of heat, or a circumstance attending...of its phlogiston, and united to elementary heat?'' Is not this as clear, precise, and intelligible, as the conclusions of Mr. Lavoisier? — [NOTE si... | |
| Chemistry - 1841 - 390 pages
...air and phlogiston deprived « of iheir latent and elementary heat; that dephlogisticated or pure » air is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston and united to » elementary hfat and light; that thé latter are contained in it in a » latent state , so as not to be sensible... | |
| Henry Minchin Noad - 1841 - 362 pages
...in it in a latent state, so as not to be sensible to the thermometer or to the eye : and if light be only a modification of heat, or a circumstance attending...deprived of its phlogiston and united to elementary heat ?'' The celebrated paper of Mr. Cavendish, was read before the Royal Society, on the 15th of January,... | |
| Henry Minchin Noad - Chemistry - 1843 - 530 pages
...it in a latent state, so as not to be sensible to the thermcimeter or to the eye : and if light be only a modification of heat, or a circumstance attending...deprived of its phlogiston and united to elementary heat ?" The celebrated paper of Mr. Cavendish, was read before the Royal Society, on the 15th of January,... | |
| 1846 - 352 pages
...it in a latent state, so as not to be sensible to the thermometer or the eye ; and if the light be only a modification of heat, or a circumstance attending...deprived of its phlogiston and united to elementary heat ?' — Phil. Trans., vol. Ixxiv., p 329. It will be observed that M. Arago, in his translation of this... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 638 pages
...it in a latent state, so as not to be sensible to the thermometer or the eye ; and if the light be only a modification of heat, or a circumstance attending...deprived of its phlogiston and united to elementary heat ?' — Phil. Trans., vol. kxiv. p. 329. It will be observed that M. Arago, in his translation of this... | |
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