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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 204

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he platinum from the ore. (Havingmade use of your friend, you get rid of himas quickly as you can.) He gets his heatby applying the combination of oxygen andhydrogen, or of carburetted fuel, for the pur-pose of producing a fire. I have here a sourceof coal-gas; there I have a source of hydrogen;and… … Fig. 37. one of them goes to the source of coal-gas, andthe other to the supply of oxygen. By unitingthese we obtain a flame of such a heat as tomelt platinum. You will perhaps hardlyimagine what the heat is unless you have someproof of it; but you will soon see that I haveactually the power of…

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