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inav perhaps excite the curiosity of those chemists who fol- 

 low Galvanic experiments. I have hitherto abstained from 

 drawing any conclusion, because I saw the necessity of ob- 

 serving more and more attentively, and of collecting a 

 greater number of facts, before attempting to establish any 

 theory. Many researches still remain to be made, and 

 many doubts to clear up. 



"1. It must be ascertained whether the gas which is dis- 

 engaged from charcoal in water positively galvanized, and 

 from all these metals which in place of muriatic acid yield 

 at length an alkali, is oxygen gas ; or is it of another de- 

 scription ? 



" 2. Whether the alkali which is manifested in water 

 positively galvanized by the metals, is the same with that 

 which is formed in water by the action of the negative pole, 

 and which is soda. 



il 3. If the presence of water is essential to the formation 

 of soda by Galvanism. 



i( 4. What are the component parts of this alkali. 



ie 5. If the carbonic acid with which the soda is saturated, 

 that is produced in water negatively galvanized with char- 

 coal, proceeds entirely from charcoal alone. 



11 6. If the Galvanic fluid, very active in its nature, and 

 probably composed of something more than a suhtle fluid, 

 does not furnish some ingredients to the compounds winch 

 manifest themselves in the action of Galvanism. 



" 7 . If wc can obtain the same products upon galva- 

 nizing water by the above processes, without the contact of 

 the atmospheric air, or in an atmosphere of gas which waff 

 foreign to it. 



" 8. If water is truly decomposed by the action of Gal- 

 vanism, and by the intermedium of the metals, charcoal, 

 and oxide of manganese. 



" Q. If the gases which are disengaged in water, the fixing 

 of the oxygen and hydrogen in metals galvanized in this 

 liquid, are uniformly and exclusively the effect of the de- 

 composition. 



fl 10. If the caloric which makes the gas elastic is pro- 

 duced by electricity, or from the water. 



"11. If 



