A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 246
tensity of the heat de-pends, to a great extent, on the factthat, unlike ordinary flames, this is sol-id—that is, incandescent throughout. The flame of hydrogen is very advantageously usedin detecting the presence of arsenic and antimony, whichcommunicate to it characteristic peculiarities (see… … 234 WATER. In its general relations hydrogen possesses many ofthe properties of a metal, and has hence been regardedas one of that class in the vaporous condition. Its trans-parency and gaseous form do not militate against thisconclusion, for the vapor of mercury possesses a similaraspect; but it…
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