Star-land; being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1899)
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 375
othe prism in the way I explained when we were speak-ing of the stars. Distant though that ring in Lyra maybe, it is interesting to learn that the ingredients fromwhich it is made are not entirely different from sub- 362 STAR-LAND. stances we know on our earth. The wrater in this glass,and every… … Fig. 89. — The Pleiades. burns very readily, though the flame is almost invisible.When I blow a jet of oxygen through the hydrogen, Iproduce a little flame with a very intense heat. Forinstance, I hold a steel pen in the flame, and it glowsand sputters, and falls down in white-hot drops. It…
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