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 82
andregularly, that I think it will please you verymuch. I have here a furnace with a pipe goingthrough it like an iron gun-barrel, and I havestuffed that barrel full of bright iron turnings,and placed it across the fire to be made red-hot.We can either send air through the barrel tocome in contact… … Fig. 14. There is some water in these glass jars, whichI have coloured blue so that you may see whathappens. Now, you know very well that anysteam I might send through that barrel, if itwent through into the water, would be con-densed; for you have seen that steam cannotretain its gaseous form if…
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