Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica/Air

AIR. We had intended to exhibit, in a collected view, the various properties, physical and chemical, of this important elastic fluid; and also to have given the results of some original researches on its relations to heat; but as our experimental inquiries, undertaken with this view, are not yet completed, we shall refer the whole to a more comprehensive article. See Atmosphere.