Note 110 — RESEARCH I. (continued 2)
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Dr. Priestley found distilled water, saturated with nitrous air, to acquire an astringent taste and pungent smell. In some unboiled impregnated pump water, I once thought that I perceived a subacid taste; but it was extremely slight, and probably owing to nitrous acid formed by the union of the oxygene of the common air in the water, with some of the nitrous gas.