Creighton, William Henry Paul, 1859- · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 507
ture. It is evident if W4 and W5 represent gases that were notor could not be burned that the resulting rise in temperaturewould be very much less than it would have been had they beenabsent. Thus, when gases are burned in air the necessity ofraising the temperature of the non-combustible nitrogen… … Fig. 255/ The nitrogen of the air and the C02 rise, and the latter, if thetemperature is high enough, may break up into 2(CO). Verylittle use could be made of this CO on account of the large amountof inert nitrogen that accompanies it. Suppose, however, we blow steam on the red-hot coals also,the…
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