10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OLEFIANT»
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olefiant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The ... grand oxy-
olefiant, or life light as used to ...
THE. 'DOMESTICT. GAS-LIGHT. The gas being ready, get the lamp or burner
arranged, then gently open the stopcocks of the gasometer and the burner, the
gas will be found to come out, then light it and regulate the flame as desired.
2
The Hon. Major Fitzmaurice's Grand Oxy-
olefiant, Or Life ...
Lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 LIFE-LIGHT . . . . . . . . . . l, 12, 22 LIME-LIGHT . . . . . . . . . . .
23 Marsh-Gas . . . . . . . . . . . 16 MEDIUM . . . . . v . . . . . . 20 Oil-Gas (Olefiant) . . . . . .
. . - . 14 Oil-Vessel . . . . . . . . . . . l3 OLEFIANT-GAS . . . . . . . . . . l4 Oxygen-Gas ...
3
Works of the Cavendish Society: Gmelin, Leopold. Hand-book ...
A mixture of 2 vol. olefiant gas and 1 vol. oxygen is not inflamed by the electric
spark. (J.Davy.) — A mixture of 2 vol. olefiant gas, 2 vol. hydrogen, and 1 vol.
oxygen passed through a glass tube heated sufficiently to soften the glass,
exhibits a ...
Cavendish Society, London, 1853
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Encyclopædia americana: a popular dictionary of arts, ...
a popular dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, history, politics and biography
Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry
Vethake. OLDFIELD— OLEFIANT GAS. . * U88 OLEFIANT GAS— OLIVAREZ.
Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, 1854
5
Pharmaceutical Journal;: A Weekly Record of Pharmacy and ...
A gas having 12 J per cent, of olefiant, the remainder being water gas or light
hydrocarbon, would not exceed .650 in specific gravity. His gas, therefore, must
either have contained much more olefiant — indeed, have been composed
almost ...
6
Applied Chemistry: In Manufactures, Arts, and Domestic Economy
The gas which is given off is a mixture of equal volumes of olefiant gas and
sulphurous acid, and contains, besides, vapors of water, ether, and alcohol. It
may be obtained pure by passing it first through milk of lime to retain the
sulphurous acid, ...
Edward Andrew Parnell, 1844
7
Lexicon Medicum, Or, Medical Dictionary: Containing an ...
Olefiant gas is prepared by mixing in a capacious retort six measures of strong
alcohol with twelve of concentrated sulphuric acid, and heating the mixture as
soon as it is made, by meansof an Argand lamp. The acid soon acts upon the
alcohol ...
Robert Hooper, Klein Grant, 1848
8
The popular encyclopedia; or, 'Conversations Lexicon': [ed. ...
OLEFIANT GAS was discovered at Haarlem, in 1796, by the associated Dutch
chemists, and received its present name from its property of giving rise to a
substance resembling oil, when mingled with chlorine (oleum fio). It is sometimes
culled ...
Popular encyclopedia, Alexander Whitelaw, 1846
9
The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal ...
Hence the tendencies of the constituents of olefiant to unite with oxygen, which
are evidenced by combination to considerable amount in presence of the powder
, may be inferred to be operative, though less efi'ectively, on the surface of the ...
David Brewster, Richard Phillips, Richard Taylor, 1836
10
The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science
The formula of olefiant gas, C,H4, places its molecule midway between the
molecules of marsh-gas and hydride of ethyl. Compaiing olefiant gas with marsh-
gas, we find that it contains one of carbon more than the latter, the number of ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OLEFIANT»
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James Moodey: CO2 doesn't rise up, trap and retain heat
Generally, the larger the gas molecule (compound gases), the more heat they absorb with the most heat absorbed by olefiant gas (ethylene). «OCRegister, Jan 12»
Tyndall's climate message, 150 years on
"I was indeed slow to believe it possible that a body so constituted, and so transparent to light as olefiant gas, could be so densely opake to any ... «BBC News, Sep 11»
