Note 169 — RESEARCH II.
Reading edition
On the one hand, it decomposes ammoniac into hydrogene and nitrogene, whilst on the other, it converts free oxygene and nitrogene into nitrous acid. It likewise converts nitrous gas into nitrous acid and nitrogene. Till we are more accurately acquainted with the nature of heat, light, and electricity, we shall probably be unable to explain these phænomena.