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" ... protecting coat; but if we warm it up to the burning point in air, as we have a fair right to do, and as we have done with phosphorus, you will see that it can burn in carbonic acid; and if it burns, it will burn by taking oxygen, so that you will... "
Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science - Page 85
1861
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A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: To which is ...

Michael Faraday - 1861 - 238 pages
...it will burn by taking oxygen, so that you will see what is left L behind. I am going, then, to burn this potassium in the carbonic acid, as a proof of...jar, and you perceive that it burns in the carbonic acid—not so well as in the air, because the carbonic acid contains' the oxygen combined; but it does...
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A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: To which is ...

Michael Faraday - 1861 - 236 pages
...it will burn by taking oxygen, so that you will see what is left behind. I am going, then, to burn this potassium in the carbonic acid, as a proof of...another piece, and now that it is heated I introduce it CARBON FROM CARBONIC ACID. 151 into the jar, and you perceive that it burns in the carbonic acid —...
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Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology, with ...

Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Sir Archibald Geikie - 1910 - 380 pages
...it will burn by taking oxygen, so that you will see what is left behind. I am going, then, to burn this potassium in the carbonic acid, as a proof of...perceive that it burns in the carbonic acid— not so well as in the air, because the carbonic acid contains the oxygen combined; but it does burn, and takes...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 30

1910 - 398 pages
...it will burn by taking oxygen, so that you will see what is left behind. I am going, then, to burn this potassium in the carbonic acid, as a proof of...jar, and you perceive that it burns in the carbonic acid—not so well as in the air, because the carbonic acid contains the oxygen combined; but it does...
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Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology: With ...

1910 - 380 pages
...it will burn by taking oxygen, so that you will see what is left behind. I am going, then, to burn this potassium in the carbonic acid, as a proof of...jar, and you perceive that it burns in the carbonic acid—not so well as in the air, because the carbonic acid contains the oxygen combined; but it does...
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Christmas at the Royal Institution: An Anthology of Lectures

Frank A. J. L. James - 2007 - 401 pages
...it will burn by taking oxygen, so that you will see what is left behind. I am going, then, to burn this potassium in the carbonic acid, as a proof of...perceive that it burns in the carbonic acid — not so well as in the air, because the carbonic acid contains the oxygen combined, but it does burn, and takes...
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