氧气差点被命名为氮气。

Oxygen Was Almost Named Nitrogen.

作者信息

Lanahan Jill K, Alston Theodore A

机构信息

Department of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, C W N L1 Anesthesia, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115.

Boston Medical Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115.

出版信息

J Anesth Hist. 2020 Jun;6(2):96-97. doi: 10.1016/j.janh.2020.02.003. Epub 2020 Mar 5.

DOI:10.1016/j.janh.2020.02.003

PMID:32593384

Abstract

In his Tractatus Quinque Medico-Physici of 1674, John Mayow wrote that a fifth of atmospheric air is comprised of nitro-aerial spirit. That so-called spirit participates in both respiration and combustion. The etymology of "nitro-aerial spirit" stems from a mineral long called niter and now specified as potassium nitrate. Niter mixed with sulfur and carbon is gunpowder, developed in the ninth century in China. Mayow appreciated that niter was the oxidant in the energy-yielding reaction of gunpowder. The word "oxygen," eventually prompting the word oxidant, was coined a century later by Antoine Lavoisier.

摘要

约翰·梅奥在其1674年的《医学物理学五论》中写道，大气的五分之一由硝气精组成。那种所谓的精气参与呼吸和燃烧过程。“硝气精”的词源来自一种长期被称为硝石的矿物，现在明确为硝酸钾。硝石与硫和碳混合就是火药，它于9世纪在中国发明。梅奥认识到硝石是火药产能量反应中的氧化剂。“氧气”这个词最终催生了“氧化剂”一词，是一个世纪后由安托万·拉瓦锡创造的。