Vintage chemistry engraving, carbon dioxide was the first gas to be described as a discrete substance. In the seventeenth century the Flemish chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont observed that when he burned charcoal in a closed vessel, the mass of the resulting ash was much less than that of the original charcoal. His interpretation was that the rest of the charcoal had been transmuted into an invisible substance he termed a "gas" or "wild spirit".
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5400 x 2332 px | 45.7 x 19.7 cm | 18 x 7.8 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
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Vintage chemistry engraving, chemical composition of carbon dioxide , weight analysis: H2CO3 + CaO=CaCO2+H2O