 | William Nicholson - Science - 1808 - 846 pages
...discovery of Mr. Cavendish. M. Hitter conceived, that he had procured oxigen from water without hidrogen, by making sulphuric acid the medium of communication...; but in this case, sulphur is deposited, and the oxigen from the acid* and the hidrogen from the water, are respectively repelled; and a new combination... | |
 | 1922 - 736 pages
...collecting oxygen and acids at the positive pole while hydrogen and the bases collect at the negative pole. He conceived that he had procured oxygen from water...without hydrogen, by making sulphuric acid the medium of the communication at the negative surface, but, as Davy says, in this case sulphur is deposited, while... | |
 | Electric power - 1922 - 734 pages
...collecting oxygen and acids at the positive pole while hydrogen and the bases collect at the negative pole. He conceived that he had procured oxygen from water...without hydrogen, by making sulphuric acid the medium of the communication at the negative surface, but, as Davy says, in this case sulphur is deposited, while... | |
 | Tim Fulford - History - 2002 - 278 pages
...discovery of Mr. Cavendish. M. Ritter conceived that he had procured oxygene from water without hydrogene, by making sulphuric acid the medium of communication...surface; but in this case, sulphur is deposited, and the oxygene from the acid, and the hydrogene from the water are respectively repelled; and a new combination... | |
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... the oxygen from the acid, and the hydrogen from the water are respectively repelled; and the new combination produced. I have attempted some of the experiments of decomposition and transfer, by means of common electricity, making use of a powerful... 