RESEARCHES,
CHEMICAL and PHILOSOPHICAL;
CHIEFLY CONCERNING
NITROUS OXIDE,

OR
DEPHLOGISTICATED NITROUS AIR,

AND ITS
RESPIRATION.

By HUMPHRY DAVY,

SUPERINTENDENT OF THE MEDICAL PNEUMATIC
INSTITUTION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD,
BY BIGGS AND COTTLE, BRISTOL,
1800.


CONTENTS.

Introduction,xi.
RESEARCH I.

Into the analysis of Nitric Acidand Nitrous Gas, and the production of Nitrous Oxide.

DIVISION I.

Experiments and Observationson the composition of Nitric Acid, and on its combinations with Waterand Nitrous Gas.

1.Preliminaries 1
2.Production of aëriform Nitrous Acid 3
3.Specific gravity of Gases 6
4.Experiment on the formation of Nitrous Acid11
5.Conclusions17
6.Experiments on the combination of Nitrous Gas with Nitric Acid17
7.Additional Experiments23
8.Conclusions29
9.Mr. Thomson’s Theory of the difference between Nitric and Nitrous Acid30
10.Composition of the different Nitrous Acids36
11.Combination of Nitric Acid with Water38
12.Of Nitrous Vapor42
13.Compari
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