Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 222
hade, and there let it CARBONIC ACID. 55 remain in the carbonic acid exhaled from its lungs, till theoxygen being at length all consumed by the bird, it died.When the atmosphere had been chemically purified by asolution of caustic potash, another bird was introduced, butthough it lived for some… … Rutherfords experiment. receiver, and it perished at once. This is at once a crueland clumsy method of making an experiment, which canbe more pleasantly and satisfactorily practised by burningsome substance in the air beneath the glass. Phosphorus,having a great affinity for oxygen, is usually…
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