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ing, wherl it: was examined, and 
found to be fo poifonous that a 
chicken, three wecks old, died in 
it in lefs than a minute. It proved 
alfo very. bad by the nitrous teft ; 
for one meafure of it with one of 
nitrous air. occupied 1.80; andthe 
refult of Abbé Fontana’s- method 
was 2-58 3:58 
fom the Peale ; in Pex periment 108, 
109, 110, and i11, reftored my 
hope that fome blunder had. been 
committed in the experiments ae? 
f offible, to difcover this mytert 
=F 13- Two pints of ftrong in- 
~fammable- air (which could not be 
a: diminifhed hte nitrous ash were let 
ite. different 
