The chemical history of a candle : a course of six lectures delivered before a juvenile auditory at the Royal institution of Great Britain during the Christmas holidays of 1860-1 / Michael Faraday.
Pubblicazione:
Mineola : Dover publications, 2002.
Descrizione fisica:
223 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Note:
"This new Dover edition first published in 2002, is an unabriged republication of the text of a course of six lectures delivered by the author at the Royal institution of Great Britain, 1860-61. This edition of the work was originally published circa 1885-89 as part of the Garnet series by the Chautauqua press, Chautauqua literary and scientific circle (C.L.S.C.), New York. The introduction is excerpted from J.G. Crowther's Men of science, published in 1936 by W.W. Norton & company publishers, New York"
Contiene:
Indice: Pt. 1. 1. A candle: the flame, its sources, structure, mobility, brightness 2. Brightness of the flame, air necessary for combustion, production of water 3. Products: water from the combustion, nature of water, a compound, hydrogen 4. Hydrogen in the candle, burns into water, the other part of water, oxygen 5. Oxygen present in the air, nature of the atmosfere, its properties, other products from the candle, carbonic acid, its properties 6. Carbon or charcoal, coal-gas, respiration and its analogy to the burning of a candle, conclusion. Pt. 2. Lecture on platinum. Notes
