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The French School maintained "that hydrogenous and oxygenous airs, incorporated by drawing through them the electrical spark turn to water," but Priestley contended that "they combine into smoking nitrous acid."

From Priestley in America 1794-1804 by Smith, Edgar Fahs

This is attested by the teaching of physiological law which maintains that any part of the human system which is not fed by fresh oxygenous blood must decompose.

From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Dechmann, Louis

He detected the powerful action of oxygenous air upon the blood, and first pointed out the true theory of respiration.

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various

Moreover, the depths at which fishes live, modify, by the increase of pressure, their cutaneous respiration, and the p 303 oxygenous and nitrogenous contents of the swimming bladders.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von

He separated nitrous and oxygenous airs, and first exhibited acids and alkalies in a gaseous form.

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various