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 28
appears, but a saturated solutionof salt which cannot absorb more; so that theaction which you see will not be due to itsdissolving anything. We may consider theplate to be the candle, and the salt the wick,and this solution the melted tallow. (I havecoloured the fluid that you may see the… … Fig. 1. this blue solution were combustible, and wewere to place a wick at the top of the salt, itwould burn as it entered into the wick. It isa most curious thing to see this kind of actiontaking place, and to observe how singular someof the circumstances are about it. When youwash your hands, you…
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