The summary of experiments in the following table appears to show that the water gas is a more powerful reducing agent than CO in proportion to the ratio of as 4.21 x 100 4.21 : 6.72, or = 52 per cent.

Gas, in many instances, is an apparently expensive fuel; but when the incidental saving in other matters is taken into consideration, I have found it exceedingly profitable for all except large or continuous work, and in many cases for this also.

One of these is called oxygen, [Footnote: Oxygen gas is the chief supporter of combustion, as well as of respiration.

"This gas is precious stuff.

Gas and moonshine are the staple subjects of conversation.

The parish oil lamps were like light-houses on the ocean; guides, not lights; the gas has become a perpetual full moon; and it may assuredly be pronounced one of the most splendid and valuable applications of chemistry.

If carbonic acid gas, generated within the dough by means of fermentation or by the use of chemical substances, be the means used to lighten the mass, the gluten by virtue of its tenacity holds the bubbles of gas as they are generated, and prevents the large and small ones from uniting, or from rising to the surface, as they seek to do, being lighter than the dough.

Possibly my cloak might not have been respected, and the jus gentium might have been cruelly violated in my personfor, in the dark, people commit deeds of darkness, gas being a great ally of moralitybut