By this means upwards of 135 grains of water were condensed in the cylinder, which had no taste nor smell, and which left no sensible sediment when evaporated to dryness ; neither did it yield any pungent smell during the evaporation ; in short, it seemed... Essays in Historical Chemistry - Page 108by Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1902 - 582 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1824 - 884 pages
...to exclude extraneous bodies, the result was perfectly pure water; " it had no taste nor smell, and left no sensible sediment when evaporated to dryness,...the evaporation ; in short, it seemed pure water." [ His grand discovery of the composition of water necessarily led to a variety of others, scarcely... | |
| James Watt - 1846 - 410 pages
...then set on fire by a candle, and the cylinder put on again in its place. By this means upwards of 135 grains of water were condensed in the cylinder,...the evaporation ; in short, it seemed pure water. In my first experiment, the cylinder near that part where the air was fired was a little tinged with... | |
| George Wilson - 1851 - 508 pages
...common air, within a glass cylinder, and collected the resulting liquid. " By this means, upwards of 135 grains of water were condensed in the cylinder,...the evaporation; in short, it seemed pure water." A short unimportant paragraph then occurs, which is followed by his conclusion from both sets of experiments,... | |
| George Wilson - 1851 - 506 pages
...common air, within a glass cylinder, and collected the resulting liquid. " By this means, upwards of 135 grains of water were condensed in the cylinder,...which left no sensible sediment when evaporated to clryness ; neither did it yield any pungent smell during the evaporation; in short, it seemed pure... | |
| Hermann Kopp - 1875 - 332 pages
...Glascylinder zu verbrennen, in welchem sich der resultirende Thau absetzte. By this means upwards of 135 grains of water were condensed in the cylinder,...experiments with the globe it appeared, that when inflammable and common air are exploded in a proper proportion, almost all the inflammable air, and... | |
| Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1882 - 800 pages
...and three-quarters of an inch in diameter, in order to deposit the dew .... By this means upwards of 135 grains of water were condensed in the cylinder, which had no taste or smell, and which left no sensible sediment when evaporated to dryness ; neither did it yield any... | |
| Henry Cavendish - 1893 - 68 pages
...then set on fire by a candle, and the cylinder put on again in its place. By this means upwards of 135 grains of water were condensed in the cylinder,...the evaporation ; in short, it seemed pure water. , In my first experiment, the cylinder near that part where the air was fired was a little tinged with... | |
| William Ramsay - 1896 - 274 pages
...By this means upwards of 135 grains of water were condensed in the cylinder, which had no taste or smell, and which left no sensible sediment when evaporated...the evaporation ; in short, it seemed pure water." " And by this experiment it appears that this dew is plain water, and consequently that almost all... | |
| William Ramsay - 1896 - 274 pages
...feet long and about f of an inch in diameter, in order to deposit the dew." " By this means upwards of 135 grains of water were condensed in the cylinder, which had no taste or smell, and which left no sensible sediment when evaporated to dryness, neither did it yield any... | |
| Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer - 1905 - 956 pages
...three-quarters of an inch in diameter, in order to deposit the dew .... By this means upwards of 13n grains of water were condensed in the cylinder, which had no taste or smell, and which left no sensible sediment when evaporated to dryness ; neither did it yield any... | |
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