 | William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 546 pages
...hydrogen, proved that water resulted from that combination. The suggestion was made of confining a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen, in the proportion of one volume of the former and two of the latter, in a cylinder, equivalent in function to the steamengine cylinder, and igniting... | |
 | 1865 - 338 pages
...another only in the proportion of volume to volume, oxygen and hydrogen will unite with one another only in the proportion of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter gas. But oxygen is found to be exactly 1 6' times heavier than hydrogen ; or, taking the specific gravity... | |
 | John Joseph Griffin - 1860 - 766 pages
...spark, and again measured. The loss of measure consists of oxygen and hydrogen gas, in the proportions of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter. Hence, one-third of the volume which disappears is the measure of the oxygen which was contained in... | |
 | John Joseph Griffin - 1860 - 636 pages
...spark, and again measured. The loss of measure consists of oxygen and hydrogen gas, in the proportions of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter. Hence, one-third of the volume which disappears is the measure of the oxygen which was contained in... | |
 | Thomas Clark Westfield - 1863 - 266 pages
...certain natural causes. Water is not an element, but a compound body, produced by the union of two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, in the proportion of one volume of the former to two of the latter ; this fact is very easily demonstrated, by first mixing the gases in these proportions... | |
 | 1865 - 640 pages
...another only in the proportion of volume to volume, oxygen and hydrogen will unite with one another only in the proportion of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter gas. But oxygen is found to be exactly 16 times heavier than hydrogen ; or, taking the specific gravity... | |
 | William Odling - 1866 - 188 pages
...another only in the proportion of volume to volume, oxygen and hydrogen will unite with one another only in the proportion of one volume of the former to two volumes of the latter gas. But oxygen is found to be exactly 1 6 times heavier than hydrogen ; or, taking the specific gravity... | |
 | Daniel Davis - 1869 - 346 pages
...a jet of the gas. The explosion is louder and more certain to occur, if it is rilled with a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen, in the proportion of one volume of the former to two of the latter. 61. The pistol being corked, connect one of the wires with the zinc pole of the battery,... | |
 | George Farrer Rodwell - 1871 - 620 pages
...passage of the spark, takes place, the gas within the tube is not driven out by it. In this way a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen, in the proportion of one volume of the former to two of the latter, are made to combine together and form water. After the explosion (which occurs with... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe, Thomas Edward Thorpe, Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - 1874 - 264 pages
...nature, as testified by the loudness of the explosion. The product of the combination is water, which is composed of oxygen and hydrogen in the proportion of one volume of the former gas to two volumes of the latter. From the small volume of the gases employed, the quantity of water... | |
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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). 
