Inflammable bodies

Gas and Oxygene, and on the chemical Relations of these Principle, to inflammable Bodies. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, 101, Part I, 1-35. 

Inflammable bodies contain not only sulphurous acid particles, equivalent to the traditional sulphur of the Chymists, but they also contain air. As Hales expressed it, fire and especially flame, consist of... 

Iodic Add. A compound of iodine and oxygen, forming iodatks with the bases. It is deliquescent and very soluble in water, and detonates with inflammable bodies like the nitrates and chlorates. 

Prostaglandins are a family of potent arachidonic acid metabolites, which modulate some components of inflammation, body temperature, pain transmission, platelet aggregation and a host of other actions. They are not stored by cells, but are synthesized and released on demand. Prostaglandins are rapidly degraded, so their half-life is in the range of seconds to minutes. 

Davy, H. The Bakerian lecture. On some of the combinations of oxymuriatic gas and oxygen, and on the ehemieal relations of these prineiples to inflammable bodies. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. 1811. 101. 1-35. 

Bakerian Lecture, On some of the Combinations of Oximuriatic Gas and Oxygen, and on the Chemical Relations of these Principles, to Inflammable Bodies Phil. Trans, y 1811, ci, i-3s XI,v,3i2(34s). 

It appears reasonable to conclude that there exists in the fluoric compounds a peculiar substance, possessed of strong attractions for metallic bodies and hydrogen, and which combined with certain inflammable bodies forms peculiar acids, and. . . for the sake of avoiding circumlocution it may be denominated fluorine, a name suggested to me by M. Ampere. ... 

Davy made a number of quantitative experiments and concluded that if the new substance is considered as an element, it offers a number [atomic weight] much higher than those of the simple inflammable bodies, and higher even than those of most of the metals.. . . There is every reason to consider this new substance as an undecompounded body In a letter of 18 March 1814 to his brother he states that this paper was written with Clement s approbation and a note published in the Journal de Physique will vindicate my priority . He speaks of Gay Lussac s last turn in publishing without acknowledgment what he had learnt from me . 

The inflammable bodies of the mineral kingdom were traditionally classified into sulfur, liquid inflammable materials like petroleum, and tenacious or solid ones like mineral rosins resina terrae), mineral pitch, coal, and so on. Bergman s classifica-... 

Inflammation Body s response to injury, which is characterized by redness, swelling, pain, and heat. 

Crawford found that the absolute heat (specific heat) of calx of antimony is to that of metallic antimony as 11 6 to 4 5 hence if phlogiston is added to a body a quantity of absolute heat is extricated and if phlogiston is separated an equal quantity of heat is absorbed. In the process of inflammation, the phlogiston is separated from the inflammable body, and combined with the air the air is converted into fixed and phlogisticated air, and at the same time gives off a very great proportion of its absolute heat. This appears as flame. Heat and phlogiston are by nature opposite principles. 

In 1812 (V XI, iv, 187, 359, 364) Davy distinguished between undecom-potmded substances (the ordinary elementary bodies) and true elements of bodies . Of hydrogen he says its extreme lightness, and the small quantities in which it enters into combination, render it. unlikely that it should be resolved into other forms of ponderable matter, by any instruments or pro-i cesses at present within our power the metals and inflammable bodies may be supposed to be different combinations of hydrogen with another prindple... 

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