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portion; and that this combination, instead of being essential to their constitution, can only be considered as a foreign substance, which contaminates their purity. It is the province of the advocates [1] for this system to prove, by decisive experiments, the real existence of the combined hydrogen, which they are hitherto only done by conjectures founded upon suppositions.
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- ↑ By these are meant the supporters of the phlogistic theory, who at present consider hydrogen, or the base of inflammable air, as the phlogiston of the celebrated Stahl.--E.
