 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 646 pages
...matter might be cited ; but I will mention only one other. Amongst the chemical reactions celebrated for the production of dazzling light, there are few...that gases of low density, which are not luminous at a given temperature when burnt under common atmospheric pressure, become so when they are simultaneously... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 654 pages
...matter might be cited ; but I will mention only one other. Amongst the chemical reactions celebrated for the production of dazzling light, there are few...that gases of low density, which are not luminous at a given temperature when burnt under common atmospheric pressure, become so when they are simultaneously... | |
 | 1868 - 1022 pages
...consider that incandescent particles of carbon are not the source of light in gas- and caudle-flames, but that the luminosity of these flames is due to...that gases of low density, which are not luminous at a given temperature when burnt under common atmospheric pressure, become so when they are simultaneously... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 662 pages
...carbon are not the source of light in gas- and candle-flames, but that the luminosity of these flame* is due to radiations from dense but transparent hydrocarbon...that gases of low density, which are not luminous at a given temperature when burnt under common atmospheric pressure, become so when they arc simultaneously... | |
 | 1868 - 346 pages
...transparent hydrocarbon vapours. As a further generalization from the above-mentioned experiments, he was led to the conclusion that dense gases and vapours...independent of the nature of the gas or vapour, inasmuch as he found that gases of low density, which are not luminous at a given temperature when burnt under... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...transparent hydrocarbon vapours. As a further generalization from the above-mentioned experiments, ho was led to the conclusion that dense gases and vapours...independent of the nature of the gas or vapour, inasmuch as he found that gases of low density, which are not luminous at a given temperature when burnt under... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1869 - 700 pages
...transparent hydrocarbon vapours. As a further generalization from the above-mentioned experiments, he was led to the conclusion that dense gases and vapours...independent of the nature of the gas or vapour, inasmuch as he found that gases of low density, which are not luminous at a given temperature when burnt under... | |
 | 1869 - 692 pages
...transparent hydrocarbon vapours. As a further generalization from the above-mentioned experiments, he was led to the conclusion that dense gases and vapours...independent of the nature of the gas or vapour, inasmuch as he found that gases of low density, which are not luminous at a given temperature when burnt under... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 652 pages
...transparent hydrocarbon vapours. As a further generalization from the above-mentioned experiments, ho was led to the conclusion that dense gases and vapours...extent, if not altogether, independent of the nature of tho gas or vapour, inasmuch as he found that gases of low density, which are not luminous at a given... | |
 | 1869 - 508 pages
...generalization from the above.mentioned experiments, he was led to the conclusion that dense gases and vapors become luminous at much lower temperatures than aeriform...altogether, independent of the nature of the gas or vapor, inasmuch as he found that gases of low density, which are not luminous at a given temperature... | |
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I found that gases of low density, which are not luminous at a given temperature when burnt under common atmospheric pressure, become so when they are simultaneously compressed. Thus mixtures of hydrogen and carbonic oxide with oxygen emit but little... 