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A small bubble of air remained unabsorbed...if there is any part of the phlogisticated air [nitrogen] of our atmosphere which differs from the rest, and cannot be reduced to nitrous acid, we may safely conclude that it is not more than 1/120 part of the whole.
Henry Cavendish
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Nature compell'd, his piercing Mind obeys, And gladly shows him all her secret Ways; 'Gainst Mathematicks she has no Defence, And yields t' experimental Consequence.
John Theophilus Desaguliers
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