"Air is... mixed with another elastic fluid similar to air, and which is in many respects differing from it, called very properly by Professor Bergman, Aërïous Acid. It owes its existence to the destruction of organic bodies by putrefaction or combustion. Nothing has of late so much engaged the attention of natural philosophers, as this subtle acid, or fixed air. It is no wonder, since inferences drawn from the properties of this elastic acid, are by no means favourable to all those who are possessed by prejudice."
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