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Definition of mephitic air

mephitic air
Carbonic Car*bon"ic, a. [Cf. F. carbonique. See Carbon.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide. Carbonic acid (Chem.), an acid H2CO3, not existing separately, which, combined with positive or basic atoms or radicals, forms carbonates. In common language the term is very generally applied to a compound of carbon and oxygen, CO2, more correctly called carbon dioxide. It is a colorless, heavy, irrespirable gas, extinguishing flame, and when breathed destroys life. It can be reduced to a liquid and solid form by intense pressure. It is produced in the fermentation of liquors, and by the combustion and decomposition of organic substances, or other substances containing carbon. It is formed in the explosion of fire damp in mines, and is hence called after damp; it is also know as choke damp, and mephitic air. Water will absorb its own volume of it, and more than this under pressure, and in this state becomes the common soda water of the shops, and the carbonated water of natural springs. Combined with lime it constitutes limestone, or common marble and chalk. Plants imbibe it for their nutrition and growth, the carbon being retained and the oxygen given out. Carbonic oxide (Chem.), a colorless gas, CO, of a light odor, called more correctly carbon monoxide. It is almost the only definitely known compound in which carbon seems to be divalent. It is a product of the incomplete combustion of carbon, and is an abundant constituent of water gas. It is fatal to animal life, extinguishes combustion, and burns with a pale blue flame, forming carbon dioxide.

Meaning of mephitic air from wikipedia

- referred to it as burnt air or phlogisticated air. French chemist Antoine Lavoisier referred to nitrogen gas as "mephitic air" or azote, from the Gr****...
- fixed air (CO2), mephitic air and inflammable air to include "inflammable nitrous air," "vitriolic acid air," "alkaline air" and "dephlogisticated air". Priestley...
- from Gr**** άζωτικός (ázōtikós) ἀ- (a-, no, without) + ζωή (zōḗ, life)), mephitic air azothermia: raised temperature due to nitrogenous substances in blood...
- referred to it as burnt air or phlogisticated air. Nitrogen gas was inert enough that Antoine Lavoisier referred to it as "mephitic air" or azote, from the...
- goddess of noxious vapors who protected against malaria. The adjective "mephitic" means "foul-smelling" or "malodorous". Avernus is the first layer of the...
- "Dissertatio Inauguralis de ere fix, at mephitic" (Inaugural dissertation on the air [called] fixed or mephitic), M.D. Dissertation, University of Edinburgh...
- (1790–1819) Lathrop, John (1804). "An Account of the Deleterious Effects of Mephitic Air, or Marsb Miasmata, Experienced by Three Men, July 27, 1797. In a Well...
- in Samnium regarded as an entrance to the Underworld because of its mephitic air. Ovid, Fasti 2.658. Ovid Fasti 1.608-9. Nancy Edwards, "Celtic Saints...
- kriedesaeure kohlensaeures gas choke-damp cretaceous acid Acide mephitique Mephitic air deutoxide of carbon hydrocarbonate Water gas prepared by p****ing steam...
- stores – Combines these dire arcana to prepare Her noxious treasures of mephitic air, Each moment hovering round the miner's lamp To scorch or suffocate –...