The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 522
as toleave the end glowing, and thenplunge it into the oxygen. It willlight again with a puff, and burnbrightly. This is because pure oxy-gen feeds flame much better thanwhen it is diluted with nitrogen, asin ordinary air (See Air, C. C. T.).For the same reason any substancewill burn more… … Deflagrating Spoon in Jar. kept from escaping by covering thejar with a piece of pasteboardthrough which the handle of thespoon passes: The things that burnwith the prettiest effects are: char-coal (a piece the size of a pea; lightit by holding the spoon in a gas-flame before putting it into the…
Games · Sports · Card games
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