...condenses on the sides of the vessel, and is equal in weight to the weight of the two airs. His theory was that water consists of " dephlogisticated air united to phlogiston," and that " inflammable air is water united to phlogiston." At the time of explosion, according to him, the excess of phlogiston was...

...condenses on the sides of the vessel, and is equal in weight to the weight of the two airs. His theory was that water consists of " dephlogisticated air united to phlogiston," and that " inflammable air is water united to phlogiston." At the time of explosion, according to him, the excess of phlogiston was...

...arrived at by Mr. Cavendish from his capital experiment was, in his own words, that " dephlogisticated air is in reality nothing but dephlogisticated water,...and that inflammable air is either pure phlogiston, or else water united to phlogiston ;" and he then gives his reasons in favour of the second inference,...

...arrived at by Mr. Cavendish from his capital experiment was, in his own words> that " dephlogisticated air is in reality nothing but dephlogisticated water,...and that inflammable air is either pure phlogiston, or else water united to phlogiston ;" and he then gives his reasons in favour of the second inference,...

...by Mr. Cavendish from his capital experiment was, in his own words, that " dephlogisticated air ia in reality nothing but dephlogisticated water, or...and that inflammable air is either pure phlogiston, or else water united to phlogiston ;" and he then gives his reasons in favour of the second inference,...

...experiment was, in his own words, that " dephlogisticated air is in reality nothing but dephlogislicated water, or water deprived of its phlogiston, or in other words, that water consists of dephlogistioated air united to phlogiston, and that inflammable air is either pure phlogiston, or else...

...— but at which he had first drawn the particular conclusion from them, that " dephlogis" ticated air is in reality nothing but dephlogisticated " water, or water deprived of its phlogiston," — he could claim no priority, except as against a discoverer, the date of whose discovery could be...

...of Cavendish upon this subject, in 1784, what expressions do we find him to use? " Dephlogisticated air is in reality nothing but dephlogisticated water,...consists of dephlogisticated air united to phlogiston."-^ But when it is asked what is phlogiston, what does Mr. Cavendish say ? why this, " that inflammable...

...comprehensive conclusion is summed up in the following sentence. "I think we must allow that dephlogisticated air is in reality nothing but dephlogisticated water,...phlogiston ; or, in other words, that water consists * Phil. Tram. 1784, p. 129. t Op. cit. p. 133. of dephlogisticated air united to phlogiston; and that...

...employment of the same term makes the wording of their conclusions identical. § Phil. Trans. 1784, p. 333. air united to phlogiston; and that inflammable air...is either pure phlogiston, as Dr. Priestley and Mr. Kirwan suppose, or else water united to phlogiston; since, according to this supposition, these two...