Meanings
nounalkaline air (uncountable)
- historicaluncountablechemistryAmmonia.First known use 18th c.
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.
2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, published 2004, page 94
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