Preparing Nitrogen Small 320×215 Medium 640×430 Large 1024×688 Download Tiff Original 2400×1612 | (315.7 KB) Description "If air is passed through a strongly heated tube contaning reduced copper or fine-meshed copper gauze, nearly pure nitrogen results." -Brownlee 1907 Keywords copper gauze, nitrogen, preparation Galleries Chemistry Apparatus Source: Brownlee, Raymond B., Fuller, Robert W., Hancock, William J., Sohon, Michael D., Whitsit, Jesee E. First Principles of Chemistry (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1907) 168