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 136
riven in andbroken by the force of the atmosphere pressingupon it [the bladder, at last, broke with a loudreport]. Now, that was done entirely by theweight of the air pressing on it, and you caneasily understand how that is. The particlesthat are piled up in the atmosphere stand uponeach other, as… … Fig. 28.with the atmosphere; the air that is abovo issustained by the air that is beneath, and whenthe air is pumped away from beneath them, thechange occurs which you saw when I placedmy hand on the air-pump, and which you sawin the case of the bladder, and which you shallsee better here. I have…
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