116 Correspondence of J. Nickles. 
due, to Kopp the discovery of amorphous phosphorus, to Schroetter its 
application. 
presence of compressed oxygen, even when the contact of the oxygen 
was maintained for almost a year. In that case the oxygen was not ab- 
sorbed and the acid power of the wine was not increased. The wine 
duces, a little time after being drunk, a very sensible heat, like the better 
kinds of old wine, a general and well marked agreeable sensation. Mr. 
Maumené inquires whether the physician may not avail himself of this 
observation. 
preparation on a great scale of water and of wine charged with oxygel 
ean be accomplished without difficulty, Oxygen is received in a ga& 
charcoal in coarse powder. From the condenser it js forced into the 
to be oxygenated. 
If the pump is worked slowly, the oxygen does not act upon the oil of 
the piston and the oxygen contracts no odor, even under a pressure of 
fifteen atmospheres. 
with this gas 
BS ae tases was four centimetres and the other six cent 
metres in thickness: (one and a half and two and a half inches neatly): 
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