t'ZO Experiments with Voltas Galvanic Vile, 



any known a6i:ion of the galvanic influence* 2d, That the 

 weight of the gafes which any given quantity of water can 

 yield to any known a<5lion of the galvanic influence, muft 

 ever bear hut a fmall proportion to the weight of all the water 

 employed. 3d, That two veflels filled with water may be 

 fo expofed to the galvanic influence, that one of them fhall 

 yield hydrogen gas and it only, whild the other fliall yield 

 oxygen gas and it only. 4th, That, by help of the galvanic 

 influence, we can extratl: at pleafure either hydrogen or oxy- 

 gen from one and the fame quantity of water. 5th, That, 

 llri6lly fpeaking, water is not deconipofed by furnifliing gas 

 to the galvanic influence ; it giving no oxygen where it fur- 

 niilies hydrogen, /and no hydrogen where it furniflies oxygen. 

 6th, That the proportion fubfiliing between the elements or 

 component principles of water may be fenfibly changed by 

 the galvanic influence. 7th, That, if the properties of com- 

 pounds be more or lefs changed by every change in the pro- 

 portions of their principles, the properties of water may be 

 more or lefs changed by a proper application of the galvanic 

 power. 8th, That water, after being duly expofed for a proper 

 length of time to the galvanic influence, mufl: certainly de- 

 ferve d medical inquiry, as in all probability it will have me- 

 dical powers different from thofe of ordinary water. 9th, That 

 hydrogen and oxygen, at the moment of their galvanic fepara- 

 tion fro/m water, are peculiarly difpofed to a ftate of combina- 

 tion, loth, That, at the moment of their galvanic repara- 

 tion, from water, both hydrogen and oxygen are difpofed to 

 combine with atmofpherical azot ; the one to produce the 

 volatile alkali, and the other the nitrous or nitric acid, 

 nth. That the galvanic feparation of oxygen and hydrogen 

 from water nndc;r an exhaufl:ed receiver, is probably accele- 

 rated by two caufes, a great diminution of atmofpherical 

 azot, and a great diminution of atmofpherical preflTure. 

 1 2th, That, when a galvanic column is placed under an 

 cxhaufted receiver, its power of communicating (hocks is 

 ahnort: entirely fufpended ; probably in confequence of the 

 extremely attenuate^! fluid furrounding it being a better con- 

 ductor of the galvanic influence than the fentient parts of the 

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