- by
naming the gas from a metal-acid
reaction "
inflammable air". He
speculated that "
inflammable air" was in fact
identical to the
hypothetical substance...
- his
discovery of hydrogen,
which he
termed "
inflammable air". He
described the
density of
inflammable air,
which formed water on combustion, in a 1766...
- were
three known 'airs':
Common air – the
air we breathe; Cavendish's
inflammable air;
Fixed air. It was this last
air which caught the
attention of Joseph...
- the
inflammable air generated from
dissolving metals in
acids (hydrogen
produced when
water decomposes) and the
reduction of
calces by
inflammable air (a...
- with
oxygen to form a calx, iron oxide, iron also
loses "the
basis of
inflammable air (hydrogen), and this is the
substance or principle, to
which we give...
-
fixed air (CO2),
mephitic air and
inflammable air to
include "
inflammable nitrous air," "vitriolic acid
air," "alkaline
air" and "dephlogisticated
air". Priestley...
-
gaseous water). Historically, flammable,
inflammable and
combustible meant capable of burning. The word "
inflammable" came
through French from the
Latin inflammāre...
- the
marsh and
demonstrated that the gas was
inflammable.
Volta notes similar observations of
inflammable air were
present previously in
scientific literature...
- by
burning inflammable air (that is, hydrogen) in
dephlogisticated air (now
known to be oxygen), the
latter a
constituent of
atmospheric air (phlogiston...
- 1833 –
Obtaining and
Applying Motive Power, & c. A
Method of
Rising Inflammable Air for the
Purposes of
Procuring Motion, and
Facilitating Metallurgical...
