A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 240
leare expressive of an erroneous idea. No substance isintrinsically either one or the other. Hydrogen willsupport the combustion of a jet of oxygen just as wellas oxygen will that of a jet of hydrogen. In fact, bothbodies are equally engaged in producing the result, com-bustion only taking place on… … An ordinary flame is not incandes-cent throughout, but is a mere super-ficies or luminous shell, as may beseen on lowering a wire gauze downupon it, as in Fig. 195. In such aflame several distinct parts may betraced. Around the wick, a, Fig.196, at the points i i, the light is of ablue color, for…
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