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 63
and how much is going up intothe air; and for that purpose we will have com-bustion on a little larger scale. From thatcandle ascends heated air, and two or threeexperiments will show you the ascending cur- THE FIEE-BALLOOK. 51 rent; but, in order to give you a notion of thequantity of matter which… … Fier. 10. merely as a sort of measure of the result of thecombustion we are considering; and I am 52 THE FIKE-BALLOO^. about to make a flame in such, an easy andsimple manner as shall best serve my presentpurpose. This plate shall be the cup, wewill so say, of the candle; this spirit shall beour…
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