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 168
iongoing on very similar to that of a candle, andI must try to make that plain to you. For itis not merely true in a poetical sense—the 156 ANALOGY OF COMBUSTION AND EESPIEATION. relation of the life of man to a taper; and if youwill follow, I think I can make this clear. Inorder to make the… … Fig. 32.tinue the groove as a channel by a glass tubeat each end, there being a free passage throughthe whole. Suppose I take a taper or candle(we can now be liberal in our use of the wordcandle, since we understand what it means),and place it in one of the tubes; it will go on,you see, burning…
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