alkaline air
Appearance
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (chemistry, now historical) Ammonia. [from 18th c.]
- 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, published 2004, page 94:
- Private individuals in England, France, and Italy knew of Priestley's discovery before he made it public with a paper on alkaline air read to the Royal Society on 3 March 1774.