But before speaking of the combustibility and other chemical properties of hydrogen, we will first describe the physical properties of this gas, as we did in the case of water.
The combustibilityof hydrogen may be shown by the direct decomposition of water by sodium.
For experience taught that combustibility could be transferred by chemical action, e.
With the exception of the first and sixth, "they owe their combustibility to the presence of sulphide of potassium.
The addition of 1% or 2% of very pure and recently rectified naphtha or oil of turpentine (camphine) to lamp oil is a real improvement, since it increases its combustibility and its illuminative power.
He tried the combustibility of the inflammable air, when mixed with various proportions of common air, and found that it exploded with the greatest violence when mixed with rather more than its bulk of common air.
Combustibility then, according to this view of the subject, depends upon a principle or material substance, existing in every combustible body, and dissipated during the combustion.
Try the combustibility of commercial alcohol; of Jamaica ginger, or of any other liquid known to contain alcohol.
Grotthus had apparently shown that rarefaction by heat destroys the combustibilityof gaseous mixtures; those of Davy, however, proved that it enables them to explode at a lower temperature.
He commenced, as we have seen, with ascertaining the degree of combustibility of the fire-damp, and the limits in which the proportions of atmospheric air and carburetted hydrogen can be combined, so as to afford an explosive mixture.
The following may be considered as an experimentum crucis, in proof of the fact that combustibility is neither increased nor diminished by rarefaction.
There was something in the combustibility of the gesture that was significant of the whole man.
He tried to put her arms from him, aroused, suddenly frightened at where he had been whirled by the immense combustibility of nature.
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