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 87
dantly, which is not steam. There is ajar full of it; and you will find that I haveexactly the same combustible substance remain-ing in the vessel, when I hold it upside down,that I produced during the experiment withthe iron barrel. This is what we get fromwater, the same substance which is… … Fig. 16. get nothing else out of them. A candle is notan elementary body, because we can get carbonout of it, we can get this hydrogen out of it, orat least out of the water which it supplies.And this gas has been so named hydrogen,because it is that element which, in associationwith another,…
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