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Chemical History of a Candle /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
ElecBook,
1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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