 | 1785 - 552 pages
...indifcriminately either vegetable, or mineral, acids. It appears, from thefe experiments, that the coloucing matter of the flowers is not difcharged or removed,...matter of the flowers is feen untinged. The Colouring Particles of plants confift principally of inflammable matters and their folubility in phlogifton,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1786 - 506 pages
...to them indifcriminately, either vegetable or mineral acids. ' It appears, from thefe experiments, that the colouring matter of the flowers is not difcharged or removed, but oniy diffolved, by the phlogifton ; and thereby divided into particles too minute co exhibit any colour.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...diffolved by carbonic acid ; and Саг^ош/ thereby divided into particles too minute to exhibit acid« any colour. In this ftate, together with the vegetable juice in which they are diffufed, they form a colouilefs tranfparent covering, through which the white matter of the flowers is feen unttnged. The... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1785 - 600 pages
...applying to them indifcriminately either vegetable, or mineral, acids. It appears, from thefe experiments, that the colouring matter of the flowers is not difcharged...through which the white matter of the flowers is feen untihged. The Colouring Particles of plants confift principally of inflammable matter; and their folubility... | |
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... vapours, all of which whitened the flowers. I 'reftored the red colour of each of thefe, by applying to them indifcriminately either vegetable, or mineral, acids. It appears, from thefe experiments, that the colouring matter of the flowers is not... 