A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 310
th be conducted through lit-mus water, the color changes to red; the air thus ex-pired from the lungs contains three or four per cent, ofcarbonic acid. A man throws out about eight ouncesof carbon as carbonic acid every day. Under a pressure of thirty-six atmospheres, or by be-ing cooled to -—106°,… … ployed as a retort to generate the gas; B, as a receiver.A is charged with a mixture of carbonate of soda andwater; a brass tube, C, containing oil of vitriol, is intro-duced into it, and the head is screwed on. A is theninverted, and. carbonic acid is generated under greatpressure. A tube, E, is…
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