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A Century of Science and Other Essays

A Century of Science and Other Essays

Fiske, John

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Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 151706113X
ISBN13: 9781517061135
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 25 2015
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: 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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