. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. point of view, a point of view which they helped to The widespread interest in the burning of sulfur and of phosphorus, .ill\. I .a\ oisier's attention. In his firsl volume of Opuscules Physiques et Chimiques (1774), he devoted 20 pages to Ins experi- ments on phosphorus. He amplified them .1 few years latei ! when he attributed the combustion to a combination of phosphorus with the "eminently respirable" part of air. En the Mithodt de Nomenclature pie of 1787, the column of "undecomposed substances"
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. point of view, a point of view which they helped to The widespread interest in the burning of sulfur and of phosphorus, .ill\. I .a\ oisier's attention. In his firsl volume of Opuscules Physiques et Chimiques (1774), he devoted 20 pages to Ins experi- ments on phosphorus. He amplified them .1 few years latei ! when he attributed the combustion to a combination of phosphorus with the "eminently respirable" part of air. En the Mithodt de Nomenclature pie of 1787, the column of "undecomposed substances" lists sulfur as the "radical sulfurique," and phosphorus, correspondingly, .is the "radical ; The acids are now shown to be compounds of the "undecomposed" radicals, the complete reversion of the previous concepl of this relationship. A part of the old analog) remained ,iv as the acids are concerned: sulfuric acid cor- responds to phosphoric ; sulfui ous acid to phosphorous acid with less oxygen than in the ; Early Uses In the Kith century, phosphorus was a costh ma- terial. It was produced mostly for display and to saiivl\ curiosity. Guillaume Francois Rouelle (1703- 1770) demonstrated the process in his lectures, and, as Maequcr reports, he "very often" succeeded iii making Robert Boyle had the idea of using phosphorus as a light for underwater \ centurv later, "instant lights" were sold. Willi molten phosphorus as the "igniter," but the) proved cumber- some and Because white phosphorus is highly poisonous, an active development of the use in matches occurred only after the conversion of the white modification into the red had been studied In Emile Kopp < Kill I. In Wilhelm Hittorf (1824 1914) 11 \\miM Laurent Lavoisier, "Sur la Combustion du Phosphore de Kunrkel, Kt sur nature de I'acide qui resulte de cette Combustion," M(moires Acadbnit 17
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