Fixed Bodies is a term applied in chemistry to those substances which remain fixed, and are not volatilised at moderately high temperatures.—Fixed Air was the name given in 1756 by Dr Joseph Black (q.v.) to what in 1784 was named by Lavoisier Carbonic Acid.—Fixed Oils are those oils which, on the application of heat, do not volatilise without decomposition. See OILS.
Fixed Bodies
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 661
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