But it is true with respect to lead, and some other noxious metals, because, unless care be taken, the particles of the oxyd which are volatilised by the heat are inhaled in with the breath, and may produce dangerous effects.
The property of attracting oxygen from the atmosphere, without any elevation of temperature, has occasioned this gaseous oxyd being used as a test for ascertaining the degree of purity of the atmosphere.
I have put some oxydof manganese into a retort, which is an earthen vessel with a bent neck, such as you see here.
And in the Voltaic battery, it is, I suppose, an oxyd of zinc, that is formed by the union of the oxygen with that metal?
Is there any name to distinguish the combination of two substances, like phosphorus and lime, neither of which are oxygen, and which cannot therefore produce either an oxyd or an acid?
And it is a remarkable circumstance, that if you burn metals rapidly, the light or flame they emit during combustion partakes of the colours which the oxyd successively assumes.
But it can never become darker, by exposure to the atmosphere, than the true prussian blue, in which the oxyd is perfectly saturated?
Thus, you see, it is the most easy process imaginable to convert nitrous oxyd gas into nitrous acid gas.
The difference between an oxyd and a compound salt, therefore, is very obvious: the one consists of a metal and oxygen; the other of an oxyd and an acid.
I think the old theory must be the true one; for otherwise how could you explain the formation of oxy-muriatic gas, from a mixture of muriatic acid and oxyd of manganese?
Gaseous Oxyd of Nitrogen, or exhilarating Gas, obtained from Nitrat of Ammonia.
As metals dissolve both in nitrous and Oxyd of zinc zinc.
Nitrogen is probably peroxydised hydrogen, or anoxyd of hydrogen; this is indicated by its medium weight, and its perfectly azotic character.
The air is in every respect therefore an element that has undergone combustion, an oxyd of hydrogen and carbon.
If these be peroxydized, then the highest oxyd of the planet is deposited in them, namely, the earth, and that indeed which was the last remnant in the order of their production, or the calcareous earth.
Silica, oxyd of iron and alumina are thus dissolved.
The principle is as fully developed by the painless extraction of teeth, as by the painless amputation of a limb; by the successful use of nitrous oxyd gas, as of rectified sulphuric ether.
In the island of Elba, masses of serpentine, which perhaps nowhere more clearly indicate the character of erupted rocks, have occasioned the sublimation of iron glance and red oxyd of iron in fissures of calcareous sandstone.
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