Assertion: phenol's property | /r/HasProperty | depend on gaseous constituent
Facets:
value: suspended on minute
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: But when it had been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended, not on the oxygen or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part might be avoided without excluding the air, by applying as a dressing some material capable of destroying the life of the floating particle.