Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 239
weight, of eight of the former to oneof the latter gas ; in volume, hydrogen is two to one ; 72 CHEMISTRY. and we saw that volume and weight were very differentthings. This we will do well to bear in mind, and that,to quote Professor Roscoe, Water is always made up ofsixteen parts of oxygen to two… … Blowing bubbles with hydrogen gas. remark that water is not a mere mechanical mixture ofgases, as air, is. Water is the product of chemical com-bination, and as we have before said, is really an oxide ofhydrogen, and therefore combustion, or electricity, must becalled to our assistance before we…
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