Experiments, discoveries, and lectures on the physical world.
Contents
5 authors / 8 works- Michael Faraday
- Introductory Note
- The Force of Matter
- The Chemical History of a Candle
- Lecture I.—A Candle: The Flame—Its Sources—Structure—Mobility—Brightness
- Lecture II.—A Candle: Brightness of the Flames—Air Necessary for Combustion—Production of Water
- Lecture III.—Products: Water from the Combustion—Nature of Water—A Compound—Hydrogen
- Lecture IV.—Hydrogen in the Candle—Burns into Water—The Other Part of Water—Oxygen
- Lecture V.—Oxygen Present in the Air—Nature of the Atmosphere—Its Properties—Other Products from the Candle—Carbonic Acid—Its Properties
- Lecture VI.—Carbon or Charcoal—Coal-Gas—Respiration and its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle—Conclusion
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
- Simon Newcomb
- Sir Archibald Geikie
- Reference