Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 82
hatsuch combustion would proceed with a rapidity dependent on the amountof surface of carbon exposed ; and lastly, that the temperature which themetal would acquire would be also dependent on the rapidity with whichthe oxygen and carbon were made to combine ; and consequently, thatit was only… … Fig. 23.—Experiments at Baxter House. With a view of testing practically this theory, I constructed a cylin-drical vessel of 3 ft. in diameter and 5 ft. in height, somewhat like anordinary cupola furnace (see Fig. 23). The interior is lined with fire-bricks, and at about 2 in. from the bottom of it…
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