328 Meissner’s Researches on Oxygen, Ozone, and Antozone. 
flow together to the bottom of the vessel. This disappearance 
of the mist is entirely spontaneous, and independent of changes 
of temperature. It is impossible to reproduce the mist in the 
air out of which it has disappeared, by contact with more water, 
The water which precipitates from the cloud may be perfectly 
pure, though it is not so always. The air remaining has all the 
characters of the ordinary atmospheric mixture, 
Antozone has thus the property of taking up water, conferring 
upon the latter the peculiar physical conditions of a cloud or 
mist, and after a short time depositing it again in droplets as it 
itself is transformed into ordinary oxygen. 
y passing the antozone mist into desiccating substances, as 
chlorid of calcium, it is deprived of water, the antozone becom- 
ing transparent, but retaining its faculty of giving a cloud when 
brought again in contact with water. Many strong saline solu- 
tions likewise deprive antozone of water; hence the non-appear 
ance of the cloud when the stream of electrized air emerges from 
a strong solution of iodid of potassium. It does appear however 
when the solution is sufficiently dilute. i 
y comparing the capacity for water, of a stream of ordinary 
air or oxygen with that of an electrized current of the same vol- 
In the dry state antozone likewise reverts to common oxyge? 
as shown by a gradual decrease of power to form a cloud with 
w is conversion goes on, however, more slowly than 
when it is moist, occupying 1 to 14 hours for its completion. 
Under the conditions in which antozone so igen! disappears, 
ough — 
gh temperature, 235° to 240° (Andrews), which at once weer 
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