AIR. 



INDEX. 



AIR. 



Air, pressure of air unfit for respiration, i. 501, .... Boyle 



— of its use in elevating the steam of bodies, i, 503, . . Same 



— on its rarity and density, i. 552, Same 



— - experts, on its compression by water, i. 606, 622, R. S. 



— effect of a varying atmosphere on bodies in water, ii. 42, 



Boyle 

 on the compression of, ii. 128, Leuwenhoek 



— experiments for the generating of new air, ii. 239, 257, 



Huygens, &c. 



early experts, for generating air, ii. 240, note, Boyle, 



Wren, &c. 

 on mixing and fermenting liquors in vacuo, 246; obser- 

 vations thereon, 270, Boyle 



of its relative weight with water, ii. 478, and Note 



augmentation of the weight of oil of vitriol on exposure 



to air, iii. 1 1 



— of its resistance to a projected body, iii. 265, Note 



on ascertaining its rarefaction by the barometer, iii. 300 



Halley 

 its velocity in rushing into a vacuum, iii. 334, . . Papin 



— its resistance to bodies in motion, iii. 350; Wallis cor- 



rection of an error in this paper, 350, 356, Notes 



of its effect on the colour of transparent liquor, iii. 581. 



Slare 



experiments on its refraction, iv. 432, Lowthorp 



quality of the air produced by gunpowder fired in vacuo, 



v , 1 83, Hauksbee 



propagation of sound in condensed air, v. 202, .... Same 



diminution of sound in rarefied air, v. 203, Same 



resilition of bodies in common and condensed air, v. 208, 



Same 



— its proportionate weight to water, v. 288, Same 



— effect of its compression against two hemispheres, v. 356, 



Same 

 quantity produced from fired gunpowder, v. 363, Same 



— effect of a violent impulse on, v. 364, Same 



different densities at different temperatures, v. 41 6, Same 



exper. of condensing several atmosph. of air, v. 45 1, Same 



— exper. on the fall of bodies in common air, v. 669, Same 

 means of supplying divers with air, vi. 258, 521, Halley 



— resistance of air to falling bodies, vi. 428, 430, Desaguliers 



— effect of its refraction on astronom. observ. vi. 517, Halley 



— machine for ventilating rooms, viii. 12, 13, 15, Desaguliers 



— on the inflammability of air in a mine, viii. 77, . . Maud 

 on the nitrous particles which abound in, viii. 296, Clayton 



— on the electricity of, x. 434, . . ... Mazeas 



— antiseptic effects of ventilation, x. 635, 641, 642, Hales 



— physical and meteorological observ. xii. 223, . . Franklin 



— quantity of fixed air in alkalis, xii. 229, .... Cavendish 



— effects of effluvia on the air, xiv. 322, White 



— salubrity of air at different places, xiv. 56*8, . . Fontana 

 sea air, xiv. 692, Ingenhousz 



— a new eudiometer, and experiments with it, xv. 35 1, 



Cavendish 



— experts, on the resistance of, xv. 362, Edgworth 



— on its conducting powers with regard to heat, xvi. 



109, Rurnford 



— experts, on the mechan. expansion of, xvi. 372, Darwin 



— observ. on the air of respiration, xvi. 647, .... Priestley 



— an unusual horizontal refraction of the air, xviii. 436, 



Vince 



— quantity discharged through an aperture, xviii. 604, Young 



— direction and velocity of a stream of, xviii. 605, Same 



— see Aii -pump, Vacuum. 



— see Atmosphere, Meteors, Electricity, Damps. 



Airs, (Chemistry) experts, on inflam. air, xii. 299, Cavendish 



— experiments on fixed air, xii. 307, Same 



— quantity of fixed air in alkalis, xii. 311,....,... Same 



Airs, of the air produced by fermentation and putrefaction, 

 xii- 316, Same 



— solubility of iron by fixed air, xii. 633, Lane 



— impregnating of water with fixed air, xiii. 587, . . Nooth 



— mixture of nitrous and common air, xiv. 38, Ingenhousz 



— effects of inflammable air on animals, xiv. 526, Fontana 



— a new kind of inflammable air, xiv. 547, . . Ingenhousz 



— nature of the air extracted from different waters, xiv. 



^63, Fontana 



— specific gravity of fixed air, xv. 19, Kirwan 



— quantity of phlogiston in nitrous air, xv. 254, . . Same 



fixed air, xv. 255, .... Same 



vitriolic air, xv. 260, . . Same 



marine acid air, xv. 262, Same 



— experts, on air phlogisticated and dephlogisticated, xv. 



481, 510, xvi. 15, Cavendish 



xv. 502, 514, Kirwan 



— of the component parts of dephlogisticated air, xv. 555, 



569, Watt 



— experiments on hepatic air, xvi. 68, Kirwan 



— production of dephlogisticated air from waters, xvi. 198, 



Rurnford 



— experiments on hepatic air, xvi. 286, Hassenfratz 



— conversion of airs into nitrous acid by electricity, xvi. 451 , 



Cavendish 



— affinities of phlogisticated and light inflammable airs, xvi. 



493 Austin 



— - on the production of nitrous air, xvi. 606, Milner 



— analysis of the heavy inflammable air, xvi. 632, Austin 



— formation of fixed air from nitrous ammoniac, xvi. 637, 



Same 



— observ. on the air of respiration, xvi. 647, . . Priestley 



— of the air extricated from animal substances by distilla- 



tion and putrefaction, xvi. 715, Same 



— experts, on sulphureous hepatic air, xvi. 726, .... Same 



— decomposition of fixed air, xvii. 50, Tennant 



— decomposition of dephlogisticated and inflammable air, 



xvii. 55 Priestley 



— decomposition of fixed air, xvii. 221, Pearson 



— see Gas 



Air-pump, improv. in the air-pump, x. 247, .... Smeaton 



— Smeaton's air-pump recommended, xiii. 504,. ; Priestley 



— experts, with Smeaton's, and other air-pumps, xiv. 220, 



Nairne 



— am improved air-pump, xv. 453, Cavallo 



Air-pump (experiments with) proposals for experiments on 



plants, &c. i. 150, Beale 



— pneumatical experiments i. 473 ; on ducks, ibid ; on 



vipers, 474; frogs, 475; a kitten, 477; quantity of 

 air in water, 479 5 on shell fish, 482 ; on scale fish, 

 483 ; on animals with wounds in the abdomen, 485 ; 

 on the heart of a cold animal, ibid, Boyle 



— comparison of the time necessary to kill an animal by 



drowning, and by withdrawing the air, i. 486, . . Same 



— of animals in air greatly rarefied, i. 490, Same 



— effects of the same air when rarefied, and when con- 



densed, i. 494, Same 



— experiments of the production or growth of animals in 



the exhausted receiver, i. 495, Same 



— expansion of blood and milk in the receiver, i. 498, Same 



— air latent in the soft parts of the body, i. 499, • • Same 



— power of assuefaction to enable animals to live in air 



extremely rarefied, ibid, Same 



— pressure of air unfit for respiration, i. 501, Same 



— continuance of a slow-worm and leech in, i. 505, Same 



— experts, on creeping insects, i. 506 j on winged insects, 



507, Same 



— necessity of air to ants, mites, &c. i. 510 



