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Of Aeriform Substances.
The first species of air that offers itself to our consideration is that of
the atmosphere, which appears to consist of a mixture of two kinds
of air, of different and opposite qualities, viz, dephlogisticated and
phlogisticated, in the proportion of about one third of the former to
two thirds of the latter. It is by means of the former of these two
ingredients that it is capable of supporting flame and animal life.
This composition of atmospherical air is proved by several
substances absorbing the dephlogisticated air, and leaving the
phlogisticated. All these processes have been termed phlogistic,
because the effect is not produced but by substances supposed to
contain phlogiston in a volatile state; and by the affinity between
phlogiston and the dephlogisticated part of the air, the one is
separated from the other. Of these processes are the calcination of
metals, a mixture of iron-filings and sulphur, liver of sulphur, the
burning of phosphorus, and the effluvia of flowers.
In some cases, however, it is not so clear that any thing is emitted
from the substance that produces this effect; for water deprived of
all air will absorb the dephlogisticated part of the atmospherical in
preference to the phlogisticated part.
As the purity of atmospherical air, or its fitness for respiration,
depends upon the proportion of the dephlogisticated air that it
contains, any of the above-mentioned processes will suffice to
determine it. The more any given quantity of air is diminished by any
of them, the purer it was before the diminution. But this effect is
produced the most quickly by a mixture of nitrous air, or firing
inflammable air in it, being almost instantaneous.
In order to measure the purity of air, it is convenient to take more of
the nitrous or inflammable air than is necessary to saturate the
dephlogisticated air it contains. Equal quantities of each best answer
the purpose. Supposing a given quantity of atmospherical air to be
mixed with an equal quantity of nitrous air, and the residuum to be
1.1 measure, the proportion of dephlogisticated and phlogisticated
air in it may be found by the following arithmetical operation, it
being here taken for granted that one measure of pure
dephlogisticated air will saturate two measures of pure nitrous air.
2.0 viz. one of each.
1.1 the residuum.
——
3)0.9 the quantity that has disappeared.
0.3 the dephlogisticated air contained
in the measure of the air examined.
And this substracted from 1 leaves .7 for the proportion of
phlogisticated air in it.
LECTURE IV.
Of Dephlogisticated Air.
Having considered the properties of those kinds of air which are not
readily absorbed by water, and therefore may be confined by it, I
proceed to those which are absorbed by it, and which require to be
confined by mercury. There are two kinds, however, in a middle state
between these, being absorbed by water, but not very readily; a
considerable time, or agitation, being necessary for that purpose.
The first of these is fixed air.
This kind of air is obtained in the purest state by dissolving marble,
lime-stone, and other kinds of mild calcareous earth in any acid. It is
also obtained by the burning, or the putrefaction, of both animal and
vegetable substances, but with a mixture of both phlogisticated and
inflammable air. Fixed air is also produced by heating together iron
filings and red precipitate; the former of which would alone yield
inflammable air, and the latter dephlogisticated. Fixed air is therefore
a combination of these two kinds of air.
Another fact which proves the same thing is, that if charcoal of
copper be heated in dephlogisticated air, almost the whole of it will
be converted into fixed air. On the same principle fixed air is
produced when iron, and other inflammable substances, are burned
in dephlogisticated air, and also when minium, and other substances
containing dephlogisticated air, are heated in inflammable air.
That water is an essential part of fixed air is proved by an
experiment upon terra ponderosa aerata, which yields fixed air when
it is dissolved in an acid, but not by mere heat. If steam, however,
be admitted to it in that state, it will yield as much fixed air as when
it is dissolved in an acid.
Water absorbs something more than its own bulk of fixed air, and
then becomes a proper acid. Iron dissolved in this water makes it a
proper chalybeate; as without iron it is of the same nature with
Pyrmont or Seltzer water, which by this means may be made
artificially.
Ice will not imbibe this air, and therefore freezing expels it from
water.
Fixed air extinguishes flame, and is fatal to animals breathing in it.
Also water impregnated with this air is fatal to fishes, and highly
injurious to plants. But water thus impregnated will prevent, in a
great measure, the putrefaction of animal substances.
Fixed air thrown into the intestines, by way of glyster, has been
found to give relief in some cases of putrid disease.
Of Hepatic Air.
Of Phosphoric Air.