| 单词 | oxygenous principle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoxygenous principle ΚΠ 1787 R. Kirwan Ess. Phlogiston ii. 22 The vitriolic acid, according to them [Lavoisier, etc.] consists of sulphur as its base, and pure air, in a concrete state, as its acidifying or oxygenous principle. 1788 J. Priestley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 157 The term oxygenous principle may be given to that thing which, when it is incorporated with water, makes dephlogisticated air. 1844 N. Brit. Rev. Nov. 59 He concluded that oxygen, as it exists in the atmosphere, is a compound of real oxygen and the matter of light; that when a taper burns this light is set free, while the wax unites with the actual oxygenous principle of oxygen and melts ‘into thin air.’ 1871 A. Ure Dict. Arts 793 This beautiful interchange of the oxygenous principle was found to go on, in their experiments, till either the sulphurous acid, or oxygen in the air, was exhausted. < as lemmas |
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