Meaning of mephitic acid | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of carbonic acid.

obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“The fact is, that fixed air is so rare a vapour and the Mephitic Acid, as I shall already venture to call⟳ it, is so greatly diluted in water, which is even saturated with it, that many of the blue juices relist its action upon them; while others, more sensible tests of acidity (such as infusions of Litmus, Cyanus, or Corn-flower, and a few others) readily announce⟳ its acid quality.”

“During the inspiration, while the mephitic acid is in a state of chemical union with phlogiston, it pastes through the lime-water without affecting its transparency; but no sooner is the air decompounded ia the lungs, and the phlogiston absorbed, than the fixed air is set⟳ at liberty, and manifests itself by the turbid precipitation of lime.”

“The carbonic acid has been called the mephitic acid; nitrogen has been called the mephitic air; but the true derivation of this term, from which it ought never to have⟳ been diverted, is mephuhith.”

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