Note 171 — RESEARCH II.
Reading edition
Journal de Physique, tom. xliii. part 2, pag. 331. They supposed it to consist of about 37,5 oxygene, and 62,5 nitrogene. The nearness of this account to the truth is singular, when we consider that they were neither acquainted with the specific gravity of nitrous oxide, nor with the production of nitrous acid in this experiment.