An edition of Observations on different kinds of air
(1772)
Observations on different kinds of air
by Joseph Priestley
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Early works to 1800, Combustion, Respiration, Sulfuric acid, Putrefaction, Analysis, Air| Edition | Availability |
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[1.] Of fixed air
II. On air in which a candle, or brimstone, has burned out
III. Of inflammable air
IV. Of air infected with animal respiration, or putrefaction
V. Of air in which a mixture of brimstone and filings of iron has stood
VI. Of nitrous air
VII. Of air infected with the fumes of burning charcoal
VIII. Of the effect of the calcination of metals, and of the effluvia of paint made with white-lead and oil, on air
IX. Of air procured by means of spirit of salt
X. Miscellaneous observations
[XI.] An appendix, containing an account of some experiments made by Mr. Hey, which prove that there is no oil of vitriol in water impregnated with fixed air extracted from chalk by oil of vitriol; and also a letter from Mr. Hey, to Dr. Priestley, concerning the effects of fixed air applied by way of clyster.
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Caption title.
Extracted from: Philosophical transactions, giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world, v. 62, article no. 19 (1772).
The leaf of plates is captioned "Tab. IX" and signed: Js. Basire sc.
Burndy. Science, 40
SCDIRB copy has a few ms. annotations on p. 224.
SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Scientific Library, United States Patent Office.
SCDIRB copy has a later brown cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine and brown sprinkled edges.
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