 | 1824 - 528 pages
...Gurney's Blow Pipe. THIS Plate represents the oxyhydrogen blow-pipe, or blow-pipe for propelling a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen, in the proportion of one volume of the former to two of the latter, which is found to act most powerfully, as it has been improved by Mr- Gurney. о is... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1825 - 1052 pages
...been demonstrated by Gay-Lussac and flumboldt, that water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen gases, in the proportion of one volume of the former, to two volumes of the latter. It occurred to me that by a very careful analysis of water, the relation between the volumes and the... | |
 | James Renwick - 1840 - 462 pages
...component parts, and the reconversion of its component parts into water, that water is a chemical union of oxygen and hydrogen, in the proportion of one volume of the former to two of the latter, and that this proportion is a constant one. When the proportion is estimated by weight,... | |
 | Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1841 - 314 pages
...one-half of the globe. Oxygen exists in the liquid form in water, in which it occurs in combination with hydrogen, in the proportion of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter gas. Oxygen is found also in the solid state : most of the mineral bodies forming the crust of the... | |
 | John Johnston - 1843 - 586 pages
...compound is by mixing perfectly dry carbonic acid and ammoniacal gases. They combine only in the ratio of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter, and condense in a white, light powder. It contains carbonic acid and ammonia in equivalent proportions,... | |
 | James Renwick - 1845 - 456 pages
...component parts, and the reconversion of its component parts into water, that water is a chemical union of oxygen and hydrogen, in the proportion of one volume of the former to two of the latter, and that this proportion is a constant one. When the proportion is estimated by weight,... | |
 | Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1846 - 144 pages
...half of the globe. Oxygen exists in the liquid form in water, in which it occurs in combination with hydrogen in the proportion of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter gas. Oxygen is found also in the solid state : most of the mineral bodies forming the crust of the... | |
 | John Johnston - 1846 - 496 pages
...compound is by mixing perfectly dry carbonic acid and ammoniacal gases. They combine only in the ratio of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter, and condense in a white, light powder. It contains carbonic acid and ammonia in equivalent proportions,... | |
 | 1856 - 568 pages
...Orleans, we discovered that the inhalation of oxy-hydrogen gas (a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen gases in the proportion of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter) produced anaesthesia equally as effectual as that by chloroform, not attended with the dangers said... | |
 | George Wilson - 1851 - 508 pages
...likewise made by simple combustion, without the aid of the electric spark. In these hydrogen and air, in the proportion of one volume of the former to two volumes and a half of the latter, were burned together, as they issued from separate tubes lying side by side,... | |
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October 1804) contained the first announcement of the fact that oxygen and hydrogen unite to form water in the proportion of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter (see ATOMIC THEORY). 
