| 1830 - 696 pages
...-Mastaclmsettt Spy. The Nature of Flame. — Flame is the rapid combustion of volatilized matter. The tallow, or the wax, is melted and drawn up to the top of the wick of the candle. Here it is boiled and converted into vapour, which ascends in the form of a column. This... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1834 - 478 pages
...Electricity, 8vo., London, 1830, p. 309:— " Flame is the rapid combustion of volatilized matter. The tallow or the wax is melted and drawn up to the top...such a temperature, that it combines rapidly with tne oxygen of the surrounding atmosphere, and the heat evolved is such as to heat the vapour to whiteness.... | |
| 1834 - 494 pages
...Electricity, 8vo., London, 1830, p. 309: — " Flame is the rapid combustion of volatilized matter. The tallow or the wax is melted and drawn up to the top...boiled and converted into vapour, which ascends in th« form of a column. This vapour is raised to such a temperature, that it combines rapidly with the... | |
| 1835 - 398 pages
...Electricity, 8vo., London. 1830, p. 309 : " Flame is the rapid combustion of volatilized matter. The tal. low or the wax is melted and drawn up to the top of the...of a candle. Here it is boiled and converted into vapor, which ascends in the i'orin of a column. This vapor is raised to such a temperature that it... | |
| 1835 - 436 pages
...Electricity, 8vo., London. 1830, p. 309 : " Flame "is the rapid combustion of volatilized matter. The tallow or the wax is melted and drawn up to the top of the wick of a candle. Here it is boiled and convened into vapor, which ascends in the form of a column. This vapor is raised to such a temperature... | |
| Charles Wye Williams - 1840 - 174 pages
...does not produce combustion (as is taken for granted by these inventors) is self-evident. 128 a high temperature, that it combines rapidly with the oxygen of the surrounding atmosphere. The flame of a candle is merely a thin film of white-hot vapour, enclosing within a quantity of hot... | |
| Charles Wye Williams - 1841 - 214 pages
...by these inventors) is self-evident. " This vapour," observes Dr. Thomson, "is raised to sue a high temperature, that it combines rapidly with the oxygen of the surrounding atmosphere. The flame of a candle is merely a thin film of white hot vapour, enclosing within it ;i quantity of... | |
| Charles Wye Williams - 1841 - 206 pages
...these inventors) is self-evident. " This vapour,'' observes Dr. Thomson, "is raised to such a high temperature, that it combines rapidly with the oxygen of the surrounding atmosphere. The flame of a candle is merely a thin film of white hot vapour, enclosing within it a quantity of... | |
| John Cargill Brough - 1859 - 438 pages
...melted and sucked up to the top of the wick, where it is boiled and converted into vapour. This vapour combines rapidly with the oxygen of the surrounding atmosphere, and the heat evolved is such as to render the vapour luminous. To bring about the combustion of the candle it is necessary to apply heat... | |
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