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communicating with the bag of oxygen is opened, an intense com- 

 bustion ensues; since the oxygen, emitted in a jet from the capillary 

 orifices of the tube, reaching the melted phosphorus excites it into 

 an active combustion, which the nitrous oxide afterwards sustains 

 with great energy. 



Combustion of Phosphorus in Nitrous Oxide illustrated. 



