Tyndall, John, 1820-1893 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 87
inly to them, ac-cording to Davy, the light ofour lamps is due. The car-bon however, in due time,closes with the oxygen, andbecomes, or ought to become,carbonic acid; but in passingfrom the hydrogen with whichit was first combined, to theoxygen with which it entersinto final union, it exists for… … mot. in. STRUCTURE OF CANDLE-FLAME. 63 The combustion of a candle is in principle the same asthat of a jet of gas. Here we have a rod of wax or tallow(fig. 19), through which passes a cotton wick. We ignitethe wick; it burns, melts the tallow at its base, and theliquid ascends through the wick by…
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