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- Author: John Fiske
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 144
- ISBN-10: 151706113X
- ISBN-13: 9781517061135
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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In the course of the year 1774 Dr. Priestley found that by heating red precipitate, or what we now call red oxide of mercury, a gas was obtained, which he called "dephlogisticated air," or, in other words, air deprived of phlogiston, and therefore incombustible. This incombustible air was oxygen, and such was man's first introduction to the mighty element that makes one fifth of the atmosphere in volume and eight ninths of the ocean by weight, besides forming one half of the earth's solid crust, and supporting all fire and all life.
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- Author: John Fiske
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 144
- ISBN-10: 151706113X
- ISBN-13: 9781517061135
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
In the course of the year 1774 Dr. Priestley found that by heating red precipitate, or what we now call red oxide of mercury, a gas was obtained, which he called "dephlogisticated air," or, in other words, air deprived of phlogiston, and therefore incombustible. This incombustible air was oxygen, and such was man's first introduction to the mighty element that makes one fifth of the atmosphere in volume and eight ninths of the ocean by weight, besides forming one half of the earth's solid crust, and supporting all fire and all life.
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