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Michael Faraday -- Preface to 1877 edition -- CONTENTS -- Lecture I -- A candle: the flame 6 -- Its sources 7 -- Candle making 7 -- Capillary attraction 12 -- Vaporous condition of fuel 15 -- Structure 16 -- Mobility 18 -- Flames can go downwards 18 -- Brightness 19 -- Lecture II -- Codensation of vaporous fluid 22 -- Air necessary for combustion 24 -- Gunpowder burning 25 -- Phosphorus burning 29 -- Capture of combustion products in a balloon 31 -- Production of water 33 -- Lecture III -- Potassium 34 |
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Products: water from the combustion 36 Nature of water 37 -- Cracking cast iron bottles with ice 37 -- Water a compound 39 -- Collapse of copper vessels by condensing steam 39 -- Production of combustible gas using iron 41 -- Hydrogen 44 -- Production of hydrogen using zinc and acid 45 -- Comparative weights 47 -- Lecture IV -- Hydorgen burns into water 50 -- Copper plating using electricity 52 -- Production of hydrogen from water by electricity 53 -- The other part of water 56 -- Oxygen 57 |
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Production of oxygen from chlorate of potassa 58 Combustion in oxygen 60 -- Lecture V -- Oxygen present in the air 64 -- Nature of the atmosphere 66 -- Composition of the atmosphere 67 -- Its properties 68 -- Weight of air 70 -- Elasticity and compressibility of air 73 -- Other products from the candle 74 -- Carbonic acid 77 -- Its properties 78 -- Lecture VI -- Carbon burns with spark, not flame 83 -- Carbon or charcoal 84 -- Taking carbonic acid apart 84 -- Coal gas 86 -- Lead pyrophorus burning 86 |
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Respiration and its analogy to the burning of a candle 91 Charcoal from sugar 92 -- Conclusion 94 -- Notes -- Air, its properties 68 -- Air necessary for combustion 24 -- Atmosphere, nature of 66 -- Brightness 19 -- Candle, its sources 7 -- Candle making 7 -- Candle, other products from 74 -- Candle: the flame 6 -- Capillary attraction 12 -- Capture of combustion products in a balloon 31 -- Carbon burns with spark, not flame 83 -- Carbon or charcoal 84 -- Carbonic acid 77 -- Carbonic acid, its properties 78 |
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Charcoal from sugar 92 Coal gas 86 -- Collapse of copper vessels by condensing steam 39 -- Combustion in oxygen 60 -- Comparative weights 47 -- Composition of the atmosphere 67 -- Conclusion 94 -- Condensation of vaporous fluid 22 -- Copper plating using electricity 52 -- Cracking cast iron bottles with ice 37 -- Elasticity and compressibility of air 73 -- Flames can go downwards 18 -- Gunpowder burning 25 -- Hydorgen burns into water 50 -- Hydrogen 44 -- Lead pyrophorus burning 86 -- Mobility 18 -- Oxygen 57 |
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Chemistry.
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Candles.
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Chemistry
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chemistry.
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candles.
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Candles
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Chemistry
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Electronic book
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1461911540 |
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9781461911548 |
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