Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2
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Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 gives experiments by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, dated 1777. The preface says the portions of Scheele's “Chemical Treatise on Air and Fire” here reproduced in English are intended to form a companion volume to No. 7 of the Club Reprints, which contains Priestley's account of his discovery of oxygen. The author writes that after carrying out a series of experiments he saw that air really enters into the mixture of fire, and with it forms a constituent of flame and of sparks.
The text says air is that fluid invisible substance which we continually breathe, which surrounds the whole surface of the earth, is very elastic, and possesses weight. The author describes how, when he wishes to have in a bladder an air collected in a bottle, he reverses the operation and fills the bladder with as much water as he wishes to have in it of air. The text says water has the peculiar property of separating the proximate constituents of air, of uniting with fire-air, and of entering into no kind of union with vitiated air.
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- Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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- Pages
- 28
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