An essay on combustion, with a view to a new art of dying and painting : wherein the phlogistic and antiphlogistic hypotheses are proved erroneous / by Mrs. Fulhame.

  • Fulhame, Mrs. (Elizabeth), active 1780-1810.
Date:
1810
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Credit: An essay on combustion, with a view to a new art of dying and painting : wherein the phlogistic and antiphlogistic hypotheses are proved erroneous / by Mrs. Fulhame. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gen of the water unites with the sulphur to form a similar quantity of acid, which dissolves the oxyda- ted iron. It would seem incredible, that in any other way, either the nitric or sulphuric acids, should be essential to the processes adverted to ; and from these and other circumstances, such as, that a metal placed in dry oxygen gas does not oxydize, which ought to result, if simple affinity only was requisite ; and by observing in all the late ingenious experiments of Mr. Davy, the presence of moisture appears to be essential in the decomposition of the alkalies, &c. although he mentions it, as only rendering them con- ductors, I cannot doubt the justice of the opinions deduced by Mrs. Fulhame from her numerous and well conducted experiments : and although it may be grating to many, to suppose a female capable of suc- cessfully opposing the opinions of some of our fathers in science ; yet reflection will serve to satisfy the mind devoted to truth, that she has certainly thrown a stumbling block of no small magnitude, in the way ©f sentiments we have been taught to consider as sacred. Philadelphia, February 14th, 1810.