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A Century of Science and Other Essays

A Century of Science and Other Essays

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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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ISBN: 9781517061135
Publisher: On Demand Publishing, LLC-Create Space
Imprint: Createspace
Pub date:
DEWEY: 500
Language: English
Number of pages: 144
Weight: 199g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 8mm