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Early Ideas concerning the Process of Combustion.—Association of Nitre with the Air, so far as the fart they play in Combustion is concerned.—Hooke's Theory of Combustion. —Mayow's Experiments.—Early Pneumatic Chemistry.—Proof of the Analogy existing between Combustion and Respiration.
