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 84
f steam passedover it, it then comes out heavier than it wasbefore, having taken something out of the steam,and having allowed something else to pass forth,which we see here. And now, as we haveanother jar full, I will show you somethingmost interesting. It is a combustible gas; andI might at once… … Fig. 15. air, and not condense. Suppose I take anotherglass jar, empty of all but air; if I examine it PROPERTIES OF THE NEW GAS. 73 with a taper, I shall find that it contains nothingbut air. I will now take this jar full of thegas that I am speaking of, and deal with it asthough it were a light…
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