Excerpt from Experiments on Air: Papers Published in the Philosophical Transactions HE following experiments were made principally with a view to find out the cause of the diminu tion which common air is well known to suffer by all the various ways in which it is phlogisticated, and to discover what becomes of the air thus lost or condensed and as they seem not only to determine this point, but also to throw great light on the constitution and manner of pro duction of dephlogisticated air, I hope they may be not unworthy the acceptance of this society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.