 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 270 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 document — the first known assertion in writing of the fact that water is a composition of oxygen... | |
 | Hermann Kopp - Chemistry - 1875 - 332 pages
...inflammable air, or phlogiston, deprived of part of their latent heat; and that dephlogisticated, or pure air, is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston, and united to heat and light; and if light be only a modification of heat, or a component part of phlogiston, then... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...and very curious experiments, which he gives at large, "that dephlogisticated or pure air is entirely composed of water deprived of its phlogiston, and united to elementary heat and light." We then must be animals of the watery element. Philosophers arc certainly making us a kind... | |
 | William Parker Cutler, Julia Perkins Cutler, Ephraim Cutler Dawes - Northwest, Old - 1888 - 518 pages
...very curious experiments, which he gives at large, " that dephlogisticated or pure air is entirely composed of water deprived of its phlogiston, and united to elementary heat and light." We then must be animals of the watery element. Philosophers are certainly making us a kind... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - Chemistry - 1894 - 406 pages
...air and phlogiston deprived of part of their latent or elementary heat; that dephlogisticated or pure air is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston and united to elementary heat and light, etc. ? " This letter, although shown to several Fellows of the Society, was not publicly... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - Chemistry - 1902 - 608 pages
...inflammable air, or phlogiston, deprived of part of their latent heat, and that dephlogisticated, or pure air, is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston and united to heat and light ; and if light be only a modification of heat, or a component part of phlogiston, then... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - Engineers - 1905 - 260 pages
...inflammable air, or phlogiston, deprived of part of their latent heat; and that dephlogisticated, or pure air, is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston, and united to heat and light; and if light be only a modification of heat, or a component part of phlogiston, then... | |
 | Henry Winram Dickinson, Rhys Jenkins - Inventors - 1927 - 602 pages
...the eye ; and if light be only a modification of heat, or a circumstance attending it, or a compound part of the inflammable air, then pure or dephlogisticated...deprived of its phlogiston and united to elementary heat'.2 Such was the conclusion that Watt, after much discussion with his fellow ' lunatics ' , embodied... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 576 pages
...and phlogiston deprived of part of their latent or elementary heat ; that dephlogisticated or pure air is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston, and united to elementary heat and light ; and that the latter are contained in it, in a latent state, so as not to be sensible to... | |
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... that dephlogisticated or pure air is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston and united to elementary heat and light... 
