Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 420
a valvestopcock, by means of which the water may be drawn off whensaturated with gas. Through a tubulature at o, which can alsobe closed by a screw plug, the materials for making carbonicacid gas (bicarbonate of soda, tartaric acid, and water) are in-troduced into the lower chamber, A. The gas, as… … rig. 332. Fig. 333. 396 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. amounting to several atmospheres. On opening the stopcock,the water charged with gas is driven out with force, and theamount of gas dissolved is found to be exactly proportional tothe pressure which it exerted on the surface of the water. When the water…
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