id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 29734 Priestley, Joseph Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air .txt text/plain 75786 2917 64 In experiments on those kinds of air which are readily imbibed by water, In order to impregnate fluids with any kind of air, as water with fixed Fixed air may be kept in vessels standing in water for a long Water thus impregnated with fixed air readily dissolves iron, as Mr. Lane has discovered; so that if a quantity of iron filings be put to it, observed, that water which remained a long time within this air has If a quantity of inflammable air be contained in a glass vessel standing letting the phial stand some days in water, that the fixed air might be standing a long time in water, about as much as inflammable air is quantities of different kinds of air in jars standing in boiled water. To a quantity of common air, thus diminished by agitation in water, till I agitated in water a quantity of nitrous air phlogisticated with iron ./cache/29734.txt ./txt/29734.txt