 | Joseph Priestley - 1790 - 494 pages
...of Auguft, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius cakinatusper Je ; and I prefently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 506 pages
...precipitate was contained in VOL. I. K a small flask, filled up with quicksilver, and inverted in a basin of the same metal. " I presently found," he says, " that...air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
...flask, filled up with quicksilver, and inverted in * basin of the same metal : ' 1 presently found (•* says) that by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my material, I admitted water to it, and found that... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1830 - 678 pages
...precipitate was contained in a small flask, filled up with quicksilver, and inverted in a basin of the same metal. " I presently found," he says, " that...expelled from it very readily. Having got several times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that it was not imbibed by it.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1860 - 460 pages
...of August, 1774, I endeavored to extract air from mcrcurius calcinatus per sc, and I presently found that by means of this lens air was expelled from it very readily. Having got three or four times as much [air] as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that... | |
 | George William Cox - 1867 - 1002 pages
...quantity of red precipitate of mercury to the action of the sun's rays concentratod upon it by a lens; the red precipitate was contained in a flask filled up...expelled from it very readily. Having got several times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that it was not imbibed by it... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1867 - 974 pages
...quantity of red precipitate of mercury to tho action of the sun's rays concentrated upon it by a lens; the red precipitate was contained in a flask filled up...presently found,' he says, 'that by means of this lens uir was expelled from it very readily. Having got several times as much as the bulk of my materials,... | |
 | 1874 - 276 pages
...endeavoured to extract air from mercurus calcmatus per se, that is, calx of mercury, and I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1874 - 606 pages
...mercuriits r.alcinatus pei- st, and which is commonly known as red precipitate. "I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that... | |
 | 1874 - 586 pages
...called mercuriug cafcinatus per se, and which is commonly known as red precipitate. "I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that... | |
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I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more... 
