A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 254
hosphorus, Fig. 210, a porcelain vessel containing py-rogallic acid and a strong solution of caustic potassa.In this method the carbonic acid of the air is also re-moved, and no impurity but vapor of water remains. Nitrogen gas (nitron, nitre, and gennao, to produce)is a colorless, tasteless, and… … 242 COMPOUNDS OF NITROGEN. It is lighter than atmospheric air, its specific gravity be-ing .967 ; 100 cubic inches weigh 29.96 grains. It doesnot support combustion nor respiration, and from thelatter circumstance took the name Azote. It does notexert any poisonous agency on animals, as is shown…
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