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has been found to contain, and which he supposes to be precipitated
I think by the Phlogiston in the nitrous air.

He has though with great difficulty perfectly deprived some
Aphlogistic air of its fixed air, when it has been left at
least 4 times as pure as that which with nitrous
air has been diminished as much as any whatever
and yet this very pure air could be diminished by
no process whatever and he tried all which had ever
been found to diminish air.

Nitrous air put to it did not perhaps add anything
to its bulk at least not till a certain quantity had
been put, but at the same time it never diminished
the original quantity of aphlogistic air.

Candles burning, Pyistical mixtures, &c were all
tried but nothing could diminish it.

He found that no air was capable of being diminished
but in as much as the fixed air which was mixed
with it. Vegetation Respiration the burning of Candles
&c all diminish air only by precipitating the fixed
air. He has found sometimes that an animal by
respiration in a certain quantity of air has done it
more good by precipitating the fixed air from it than
harm by the phlogiston which it communicated,

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Date_1	1779-10-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	394	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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