"Revivify" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... experiments, been led to consider the electric matter as phlogiston, or something containing phlogiston, I was endeavouring to revivify the calx of lead with it; when I was surprized to perceive a considerable generation of air. It occurred to me, that possibly this effect might arise from the heat communicated to the red-lead by the electric sparks, and therefore I immediately filled ...
— Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air • Joseph Priestley |
