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The Pennsylvania Associations of Joseph Priestley

โœ Scribed by Joseph Samuel Hepburn

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1947
Tongue
English
Weight
611 KB
Volume
244
Category
Article
ISSN
0016-0032

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โœฆ Synopsis

His researches were published as "Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air" in six volumes between 1775 and 1786. He invented a pneumatic trough for the collection of gases. When mercury was used in this apparatus, the discovery, isolation, and study of water-soluble gases, such as ammonia and hydrogen chloride, were made possible. Priestley discovered and described the following gases: Nitric oxide, nitrous-oxide, hydrogen chloride, ammonia, sulfur dioxide, silicon fluoride, and hydrogen sulfide; he also discovered carbon monoxide and nitrogen, but failed to recognize their true nature. His greatest discovery was oxygen ("dephlogisticated

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