b. Phosphorus introduced into it in a state of inflammation, burnt with infinitely greater vividness than before.
c. Sulphur introduced into it when burning with a feeble blue flame, was instantly extinguished; but when in a state of active inflammation (that is, forming sulphuric acid) it burnt with a beautiful and vivid rose-colored flame.
d. Inflamed charcoal, deprived of hydrogene, introduced into it, burnt with much greater vividness than in the atmosphere.
e. To some fine twisted iron wire a small piece of cork was affixed: this was inflamed, and the whole introduced into a jar of the air. The iron burned with great vividness, and threw out bright sparks as in oxygene.
f. 30 measures of it exposed to water previously boiled, was rapidly absorbed; when the diminution was complete, rather more than a measure remained.
g. Pure water saturated with it, gave it out again on ebullition, and the gas thus produced retained all its former properties.
h. It was absorbed by red cabbage juice; but no alteration of color took place.
i. Its taste was distinctly sweet, and its odor slight, but agreeable.
j. It underwent no diminution when mingled with oxygene or nitrous gas.
Such were the obvious properties of the Nitrous Oxide, or the gas produced by the decomposition of nitrate of ammoniac in a temperature not exceeding 440°. Other properties of it will be hereafter demonstrated, and its affinities fully investigated.