A course of six lectures on the chemical history of a candle [electronic resource]: to which is added, a lecture on platinum (1865)
Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867, Crookes, William, 1832-1919 · London : Charles Griffin and Company · leaf 118
side, and takesome other substance; but we must limit ourexperiments, for we have not time to spare for 106 SULPHUR BURNING IN OXYGEN. all the illustrations you would have a right toif we had more time. We will take a piece ofsulphur: you know how sulphur burns in theair; well, we put it into the… … Fig. 24. The sulphur is now burning very quietly in theoxygen ; but you cannot for a moment mistakethe very high and increased action which takesplace when it is so burnt, instead of being burntmerely in common air. * I am now about to show you the combustionof another substance—phosphorus. I can…
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