nitro-ˈaerial, a. Obs. exc. Hist.
[See prec. and aerial a.]
Pertaining to, existing in, both nitre and the air. (See quots.)
| 1674 Phil. Trans. IX. 102 These Igneous particles, conceived by him [Mayow] to be common to Niter and Air, he calls Nitro-aerial, from whence the Spirit of Niter derives its caustique and corrosive nature. 1675 Grew Anat. Pl., Tastes Pl. iv. (1684) 287 Those Roots which are Biting, have but few..Aer-Vessels; whereby fewer parts of the nitroaereal Sap are carryed off into the Trunk. 1744 Phil. Trans. XLIII. 20 Those from the Brain, he says, are nitro-aerial Particles, and the true Animal Spirits. 1799 Med. Jrnl. I. 252 He further adds, that the nitro-aerial spirit gives the red colour to bodies in which it exists, not unlike the fuming spirit of nitre. 1812 Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 26 Mayow of Oxford, in 1674, published his treatises on the nitro-ærial spirit, in which he advanced opinions similar to those of Boyle and Hooke. 1892 Syd. Soc. Lex., Nitro-aerial particles, Mayow's term for a substance indispensable to combustion, and which enters into the composition of nitre. |
So nitro-ˈaerian, † -ˈaerious adjs.
| 1733 Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. ii. (Dubl.) 15 The Nitro-aerious Particles may there enter, to keep up the vital Ferment or Flame. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 23 The nitro-aerious fluid pervading them. 1881 R. Routledge Science x. 234 The water will arise within the jar as the candle removes the ‘nitro-ærian’ particles. |