 I had that expectation when I first put a sprig of mint into a glass jar standing inverted in a vessel of water: but when it had continued growing there for some months, I found that the air would neither extinguish a candle, nor was it at all inconvenient...  Joseph Priestley - Page 178by Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1906 - 228 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Priestley - 1790 - 600 pages
...confined air, which led to this difcovery. One might have imagined that, fince common air is neceflary to vegetable, as well as to animal life, both plants and animals had affected it in the fame manner ; and I own I had that expectation, when I firft put a fprig of mint into a glafs jar,... | |
 | Daniel Ellis - 1811 - 396 pages
...enable this candid phi-i losopher fully to appreciate. 243. Dr Priestley had himself^ at first expected, that, " since common air is necessary to vegetable...as well as to animal life, both plants and animals would have affected it in the same manner ;" but he found, that, after a sprig of mint had grown for... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 pages
...inductions Dr. Priestley has proved hi* opinion. It was natural to imagine, that, since the change of common air is necessary to vegetable as well as to animal life, both plants and animals rendered it foul in the same manner, so as to become unfit for further life and vegetation. But, when,... | |
 | 1824 - 884 pages
...growth of vegetables might be productive of similar effects. «' One might have imagined," says he, « that since common air is necessary to vegetable as well as to animal life, both plants and animals would affect it in the same manner; and 1 own I had that expectation when I first put a sprig of mint... | |
 | John Towill Rutt - 1831 - 450 pages
...March 5, 12, 19, 26, 1772." Phil. Trans. LXII. 147—267. Dr. Priestley says, " One might have imagined that since common air is necessary to vegetable as well as to animal life, both plants and animals would affect it in the same manner ; and I own I had that expectation when I first put a sprig of mint... | |
 | George Lincoln Goodale - 1885 - 574 pages
...page's 50 nnd 52 of the volume quoted above are the following statements : " One might have imagined that since common air is necessary to vegetable, as...animals had affected it in the same manner ; and I own 1 hud that expectation when I first put a sprig of mint into a gloss jar standing inverted in a vessel... | |
 | Asa Gray - 1885 - 756 pages
...pages 50 and 52 of the volume quoted above arc the following statements : "One might hnve imagined that since common air is necessary to vegetable, as...inverted in a vessel of water : but when it had continued growing there for some months 1 found that the air would neither extinguish a candle nor was it at... | |
 | George Lincoln Goodale - 1885 - 572 pages
...pages 50 and 52 of the volume quoted above are the following statements : " One might have imagined that since common air is necessary to vegetable, as...standing inverted in a vessel of water : but when it hod continued growing there for some months I found that the air would neither extinguish a candle... | |
 | George Lincoln Goodale - 1885 - 572 pages
...pages 50 and 52 of the volume quoted above are the following statements : " One might hare imagined that since common air is necessary to vegetable, as...animals had affected it in the same manner , and I own I had that expectation when I first put a sprig of mint into a glass jar standing inverted in a vessel... | |
 | George Lincoln Goodale - 1885 - 572 pages
...volume quoted above are the following statements : " One might have imagined that since common nir is necessary to vegetable, as well as to animal life,...animals had affected it in the same manner ; and I own I had that expectation when I first put a sprig of mint into a glass jar standing inverted in a vessel... | |
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