24 Meissner’s Researches on Oxygen, Ozone, and Antozone. 
is consumed by the phosphorus, no oxydation of nitrogen can 
occur, and, in fact, none of the oxyds of nitrogen are discover- 
able in the products. 
It is known that phosphorus, burning with flame in a hmited 
volume of air, does not wholly exhaust the latter of oxygen. 
This is due to the fact that phosphorus cannot combine with 
antozone, but only with ozone: when, therefore, the former 
separa over and over again, until the temperature so far 
falls that antozone acquires a considerable degree of permanency, 
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until only a minute, and to our tests inappreciable, residue 
remains uncombined. 
In the slow oxydation of turpentine and other volatile oils, it 
appears that oxygen is polarized, the ozone being completely 
rbed by the oil, resin and other products resulting: while 
antozone, which does not oxydize the oil, remains free or is dis- 
solved in it as HO,. This view is sustained by the following 
experiments. When a stream of air is passed through freshly- 
distilled and pure turpentine, the latter is oxydized, as when 
exposed to air, but more rapidly ; but no ozone can be detected. 
Antozone, however, is contained in the oxydized oil: at least, 
the latter gives, as Schénbein has shown, the reactions of HO,. 
When electrized but deozonized air is transmitted through the 
oil, it is oxydized precisely as by a stream of ordinary air; the 
antozone produced by electrization being without effect. Ozone, 
however, oxydizes and resinifies the oil with extraordinary 
rapidity. 
es dase process doubtless occurs in the slow combustion of 
ether. 
In case of zinc, both the ozone and antozone unite with the 
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