Journal - Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania (1826)
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · [Philadelphia : Franklin Institute] · leaf 412
re transferred to the air. The air pipe isat the same time the combustion chamber and the flue, theproducts of combustion adding about five per cent, to thevolume of the air, in addition to the large increase throughexpansion by heat. Box is authority for the statement that When oxygen and carbon… … Fig. 3. that of the air entering the fire, expanded of course to thevolume due to the increased temperature, the oxygen con-sumed having been replaced by the same volume of car-bonic acid gas. The nitrogen in the air is passive, passingthrough fire without chemical alteration. If the combusti-ble…
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