THE account in NATURE of November 17, p. 778, by Dr. Newton Friend and Mr. S. Marks of an explosion which occurred during the preparation of oxygen from sodium peroxide and water interested us ...

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A few days ago oxygen was prepared in the course of a lecture experiment by allowing water from a drop funnel to fall upon some ordinary sodium peroxide (not specially purified) in a flask. On ...

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