 | Industrial arts - 1808 - 476 pages
...metallic bases of the alkalies, and the common metals, will stand in the same arrangement of snbstances ; and as yet we have no good reasons for assuming the...experiments in which it is said that alkalies, metallic oxyds and earths, may be formed from air and water alone, in processes of vegetation, have been always... | |
 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1808 - 472 pages
...bases of the alkalies, and the common metals^ will stand in the same arrangement of substances; and sa yet we have no good reasons for assuming the compound...experiments in which it is said that alkalies, metallic oxyds and earths, may be formed from air and water alone, in processes of vegetation, have been always... | |
 | William Nicholson - Science - 1808 - 846 pages
...common metals, will stand in the same son Xet to ĞUParrangemeat of substances; and as yet we have no reasons for assuming the compound nature of this class...bodies*. The experiments in which it is said, that alkalis, metallic Air'and water oxides, and earths may be formed from air and water alone, in processes... | |
 | Medicine - 1809 - 336 pages
...the gases destroyed the hypothesis of Stahl. The knowledge of the powers and effects of the ethereal substances may, at a future time, possibly act a similar...assuming the compound nature of this class of bodies.* * A phlogistic chemical theory might certainly be defended on the idea that the metals are compounds... | |
 | Daniel Ellis - 1811 - 396 pages
...period they were made, could not have enabled their authors to foresee. " The experiments," says he, " in which it is said that alkalies, metallic oxides,...vegetation, have been always made in an inconclusive manner ; for distilled water may contain both saline and metallic impregnations 5 and the free atmosphere... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - Alkalies - 1906 - 62 pages
...metals. Of this subject, I shall treat again in the text in some of the following pages. C covered metals, and which, though originally Latin, is now...have been always made in an inconclusive manner;! for distilled water, as * A phlogistic chemical theory might certainly be defended, on the idea that... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - Agricultural chemistry - 1840 - 580 pages
...precision, than a conviction of its permanency and truth. The discovery of the agencies of the gases destroyed the hypothesis of Stahl. The knowledge of...assuming the compound nature of this class of bodies.* * A phlogistic chemical theory might certainly be defended, on the Idea that the metals are compounds... | |
 | Physics - 1808 - 794 pages
...reason to believe that the metallic bases of the alkalis, and the common metals, will stand in the name arrangement of substances ; and as yet we have no...bodies *. The experiments in which it is said that alkalis, metallic oxides, and earths may be formed from air and water alone, in processes of vegetation,... | |
 | David M. Knight - Philosophy - 1998 - 642 pages
...most generally approved. It is perhaps more significant than elegant. But it was not possible to 36 found names upon specific properties not common to...for assuming the compound nature of this class of bodies.11 The experiments in which it is said that alkalies, metallic oxides, and earths may be formed... | |
 | Tim Fulford - History - 2002 - 278 pages
...phenomena that are daily becoming disclosed, seem distinctly to shew that the mature time for a 108 complete generalization of chemical facts is yet far...vegetation, have been always made in an inconclusive manner;14 for distilled water, as I have endeavoured to show,15 may contain both saline and metallic... | |
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The knowledge of the powers and effects of the etherial substances may at a future time possibly act a similar part with regard to the more refined and ingenious hypothesis of LAVOISIER; but in the present state of our knowledge, it appears the best approximation... 