This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...heating water therein for one hundred days, found there was no change in the weight of the vessel and its contents. When he evaporated the water he got a residue of earthy matter which he found corresponded, within the range of experimental error, with the loss in weight of the empty vessel. He ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...heating water therein for one hundred days, found there was no change in the weight of the vessel and its contents. When he evaporated the water he got a residue of earthy matter which he found corresponded, within the range of experimental error, with the loss in weight of the empty vessel. He therefore concluded that water on being boiled is not changed into earth, but that a part of the matter of which the glass is composed is dissolved out by the water; and the analytical work of Scheele afterwards showed that this residue did have the same composition as the glass, thus confirming the work of Lavoisier. Indestructibility of Matter.--The old alchemical notion of transmutation was thus shown to be false, and was finally dismissed from chemistry. Lavoisier established the important generalization that matter may be changed, but not destroyed nor created. The matter lost from the glass vessel was merely dissolved in the water. This is the principle of the Indestructibility of Matter, the fundamental principle of modern science. Of course Lavoisier's work was only the beginning of the series of experiments on this subject which after many years established the principle. The Relation of Plants and Animals to the Atmosphere.--Priestley had performed various experiments upon the gases or airs known to him; and, as has been said, had discovered the relation of the plants and animals to the atmosphere, and the approximate balance maintained by their action upon it. His ignorance of accurate analytical work and his devotion to the phlogiston theory prevented his reaching a true ex--planation of the facts observed by him. Lavoisier and Scheele determined the composition of the atmosphere, and afterwards Cavendish gave an exact analysis of it....
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