A Text-Book On Chemistry : for the Use of Schools And Colleges
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Wliat is its specific gravity 7 172 PROPERTIES OF OXYGEN. droeeii beinof taken as I'OOO. It has never been con- densed into the liquid state. To a cei'tain extent it is soluble in water, one hundred volumes of that liquid dissolving about four of the gas, a fact of considerable importance in physiology, as it is upon the oxygen so found in water that aquatic animals depend for their respiratory process. On litmus water, or any blue vegetable solution, oxy- Fig. 151. gen exerts no action, as is ...easily shown by agita- ting it with such a solution in Hope's eudiometer {Fig. 151) ; but though it is not acid itself, when it unites with a great variety of bodies it gives rise to powerful acids, and from this circumstance its name was derived. Oxygen, o^vc, acid, and yevvsLV, to generate. The most important qualities of atmospheric air are due to the presence of oxygen gas. It is for this reas- on that the air supports combustion and respiration. The powers of oxygen, in this respect, may be illustrated by many striking experiments ; thus, if into a jar filled with it, a stick of wood, with a spark of fire on its ex- tremity, be immersed, it bursts out at once into a flame, burning brilliantly.
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