- by
naming the gas from a metal-acid
reaction "
inflammable air". He
speculated that "
inflammable air" was in fact
identical to the
hypothetical substance...
- his
discovery of hydrogen,
which he
termed "
inflammable air". He
described the
density of
inflammable air,
which formed water on combustion, in a 1766...
- were
three known 'airs':
Common air – the
air we breathe; Cavendish's
inflammable air;
Fixed air. It was this last
air which caught the
attention of Joseph...
-
fixed air (CO2),
mephitic air and
inflammable air to
include "
inflammable nitrous air," "vitriolic acid
air," "alkaline
air" and "dephlogisticated
air". Priestley...
- by
burning inflammable air (that is, hydrogen) in
dephlogisticated air (now
known to be oxygen), the
latter a
constituent of
atmospheric air (phlogiston...
- gas that is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and
slightly less
dense than
air.
Carbon monoxide consists of one
carbon atom and one
oxygen atom connected...
- the
inflammable air generated from
dissolving metals in
acids (hydrogen
produced when
water decomposes) and the
reduction of
calces by
inflammable air (a...
- with
oxygen to form a calx, iron oxide, iron also
loses "the
basis of
inflammable air (hydrogen), and this is the
substance or principle, to
which we give...
- his ideas. Historically, flammable,
inflammable and
combustible meant capable of burning. The word "
inflammable" came
through French from the
Latin inflammāre...
- by a gas-light apparatus, and by
firing the
inflammable air generated, with a due
portion of
common air,
under a piston". "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived...
