Elementary natural philosophy : designed for high schools and academies (1881)
Griffin, La Roy F. (La Roy Freese), 1844-1916 · Philadelphia : Sower, Potts & Co. · leaf 94
own, experimentally, by mixingthe two gases in the above proportion, when the mixturewill show all the properties of the air. But the decisiveproof is that water absorbs the two gases from the air, notin the proportion in which they make it up, but in theproportion in which it absorbs them from the… … Fig. 108.but not return. The piston also has a valve opening upward, THE AIR PUMP. 85 and an additional valve is often placed at the top to prevent theexternal air from rushing in above the piston as it descends. Asmall pipe connects the cylinder with a metal plate ground sothat a glass receiver…
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