 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - 572 pages
...oxygene gas, it burns with great vividness, emitting bright sparks. Oxygene is absorbed, nitrogene is emitted, and potash, which from its great fusibility...non-absorbable elastic fluid liberated is found to be hydrogene gas. By far the greatest part of the ponderable matter of the ammonia, that disappears in... | |
 | 1809 - 440 pages
...preserved under naphtha, in which, however, it softens slowly, and seems partially to dissolve. When k it is plunged under water filling an inverted jar,...the ammonia, that disappears in the experiment of itsaction upon potassium, evidently exists in the dark fusible product. On weighing a tray containing... | |
 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1809 - 444 pages
...move in a state of ignition upon the surface of the water. It rapidly effervesces and deliquesces iit air, but can be preserved under naphtha, in which,...effervescence, and the non-absorbable elastic fluid libe-> rated is found to be hydrogen gas. By far the greatest part of the ponderable matter of the... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 856 pages
...upon the surface of the water. It rapidly effervesces and deliquesces in air, but can be pre: served under naphtha, in which, however, it softens slowly,...instantly with effervescence, and the nonabsorbable clastic fluid liberated is found to be hidrogen gas. The ponder- By far the greatest p:irt of the ponderable... | |
 | 1809 - 596 pages
...deliquesces in the air, but can be preserved under Naphtha, in which however it softens slowly and seems to dissolve. When it is plunged under water filling an inverted jar, by means of a proper tubes, it disappears instantly with effervescence, and the now absorbabie elastic fluid is found to... | |
 | John Ware - 1812 - 458 pages
...of the water. It rapidly effervesces and deliquesces in the air, but can be preserved under naptha, in which, however, it softens slowly and seems partially...ammonia that disappears in the experiment of its action on potassium, evidently exists in the dark fusible product. And I doubt not, says Dr. Davy, that the... | |
 | 1812 - 700 pages
...prcferved under n:iphtlia, ¡я which, howevi-r, it foftens flowly, and fecms partially to dif. fblve. When it is plunged under water filling an inverted jar, by means of a proper tube, it difappears inftanily with efférvefcenee, and the non-abforbable elaftic fluid liberated is found to... | |
 | 1812 - 704 pages
...preferved under naphtha, in • which, however, it foftens flowly, and feems partially to diffolve. When it is plunged under water filling an inverted jar, by means of a proper tube, it difappears inftantly with effervef. cence, and the non-abforbable elaftic fluid liberated is found... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1840 - 580 pages
...believe, as yet been received in this country, except that in the Moniteur already referred to ; and ia this no mention is made of the properties of the substance...instantly with effervescence, and the non-absorbable clastic fluid liberated is found to be hydrogen gas. By far the greatest part of the ponderable matter... | |
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When brought in contact with water, it acts upon it with much energy, produces heat, and often inflammation, and evolves ammonia. When thrown upon water, it disappears with a hissing noise, and globules from it often move in a state of ignition upon the... 