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Tests for Oxygen

It is distinguished from other gases by yielding nothing but pure water when mixed with twice its volume of hydrogen and exploded, or when a jet of hydrogen is burned in it. A recently extinguished taper, with the wick still red hot, instantly inflames when plunged into this gas. A small spiral piece of iron wire, ignited at the point and suddenly plunged into a jar of oxygen, burns with great brilliancy and rapidity.