slowly reacted with water, and that the water contained no dissolved carbon dioxide
and that the evolved gas was combustible (i.e. hydrogen):
2Fe s
ð Þ þ 2H 2 O l
ð Þ þ O 2 g
ð Þ ! 2FeO OH
ð Þ s
ð Þ þ H 2 g
ð Þ:
There is a later manuscript in the so-called Brown Book (a collection of
Scheele’s notes, Sect. 28.7), which according to Boklund was written by Scheele no
later than 177 [1, 14] and here all mentions of elastic phlogiston have been
removed. The changed view is most likely due to Scheele’s advances in his studies
of combustion that would eventually result in his book on air and fire, Chemische
Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer, a few years later.
References
1. Linnaeus C (1751) Skånska resa, på Höga Öfwerhetens befallning förrättad år 1749, Lars
Salvius, Stockholm, p 180
2. Åberg G (1982) Apotekarna på Fläkta Örn och deras medicinalväxtodlingar. Sv Farm Tidskr
86:34–48
3. Nordenskiöld A (1892) Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Stockholm, p XIII, Efterlämnade bref och
anteckningar
4. Sjöstén CG (1801) Åminnelse-tal, hållit för Kongl. Vetenskaps Academien öfver dess
framledne ledamot herr Carl Vilhelm Scheele, den 14 oct. 1799. Stockholm, p 12
5. Wollin C, Retzius A (1764) Dissertatio academica de natura ac indole chemiæ puræ cujus
parten priorem auxiliante Deo … præside doct. Christiano Wollin … publico examini
submittit Andreas Jahannes Retzius scanus ad diem XI febr. MDCCLXIV. Lund
6. Boklund U (1961) Carl Wilhelm Scheele bruna boken, Stockholm, p 399
7. von Hellwig C (1718) Lexicon medico chymicum, Frankfurt and Leipzig. p 8
8. Boklund U (1961) Carl Wilhelm Scheele, bruna boken de, Stockholm, p 43ff
9. Fredga A (1943) Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Stockholm, KVA, p 3
10. Boklund U (1961) Carl Wilhelm Scheele bruna boken, Stockholm, p 400
11. Nordenskiöld AE (1892) Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Stockholm, Efterlämnade bref och
anteckningar, p 49
12. Nordenskiöld AE (1892) Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Stockholm, Efterlämnade bref och
anteckningar, p 53
13. Boklund U (1961) Carl Wilhelm Scheele, bruna boken, Stockholm, p 62
14. Boklund U (1961) Carl Wilhelm Scheele, bruna boken del 2, Stockholm, p 349
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107
and that the evolved gas was combustible (i.e. hydrogen):
2Fe s
ð Þ þ 2H 2 O l
ð Þ þ O 2 g
ð Þ ! 2FeO OH
ð Þ s
ð Þ þ H 2 g
ð Þ:
There is a later manuscript in the so-called Brown Book (a collection of
Scheele’s notes, Sect. 28.7), which according to Boklund was written by Scheele no
later than 177 [1, 14] and here all mentions of elastic phlogiston have been
removed. The changed view is most likely due to Scheele’s advances in his studies
of combustion that would eventually result in his book on air and fire, Chemische
Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer, a few years later.
References
1. Linnaeus C (1751) Skånska resa, på Höga Öfwerhetens befallning förrättad år 1749, Lars
Salvius, Stockholm, p 180
2. Åberg G (1982) Apotekarna på Fläkta Örn och deras medicinalväxtodlingar. Sv Farm Tidskr
86:34–48
3. Nordenskiöld A (1892) Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Stockholm, p XIII, Efterlämnade bref och
anteckningar
4. Sjöstén CG (1801) Åminnelse-tal, hållit för Kongl. Vetenskaps Academien öfver dess
framledne ledamot herr Carl Vilhelm Scheele, den 14 oct. 1799. Stockholm, p 12
5. Wollin C, Retzius A (1764) Dissertatio academica de natura ac indole chemiæ puræ cujus
parten priorem auxiliante Deo … præside doct. Christiano Wollin … publico examini
submittit Andreas Jahannes Retzius scanus ad diem XI febr. MDCCLXIV. Lund
6. Boklund U (1961) Carl Wilhelm Scheele bruna boken, Stockholm, p 399
7. von Hellwig C (1718) Lexicon medico chymicum, Frankfurt and Leipzig. p 8
8. Boklund U (1961) Carl Wilhelm Scheele, bruna boken de, Stockholm, p 43ff
9. Fredga A (1943) Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Stockholm, KVA, p 3
10. Boklund U (1961) Carl Wilhelm Scheele bruna boken, Stockholm, p 400
11. Nordenskiöld AE (1892) Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Stockholm, Efterlämnade bref och
anteckningar, p 49
12. Nordenskiöld AE (1892) Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Stockholm, Efterlämnade bref och
anteckningar, p 53
13. Boklund U (1961) Carl Wilhelm Scheele, bruna boken, Stockholm, p 62
14. Boklund U (1961) Carl Wilhelm Scheele, bruna boken del 2, Stockholm, p 349
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