 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1812 - 352 pages
...substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle ; quartz, the...all entered into fusion ; fragments of diamond, and pobts of charcoal and plumbago, rapidly disappeared, and seemed to • evaporate in it, even when the... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 470 pages
...substance was introduced into this arch it instantly became ignited ; platina melted as rcndily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle; quartz, the sapphire,...in a receiver exhausted by the air-pump ; but there waa no evidence of their having previous!« undergone fusion. ' M hen the communication between the... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 486 pages
...substance was introduced into this arch it instantly became ignited ; plalina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle ; quartz, the...seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connexion wai made in a receiver exhausted by the air-pump ; but there was no evidence of their having previously... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 698 pages
...substance was introduced into this arch it in. M.inlly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle : quartz, the...entered into fusion; fragments of diamond, and points of char, coal and plumbago, rapidly disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connexion... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 688 pages
...substance was introduced into this arch it in. stantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle : quartz, the...entered into fusion; fragments of diamond, and points of char, coal and plumbago, rapidly disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connexion... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 714 pages
...substance was introduced into this arch it in. stantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle : quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, linn-, all entered into fusion; fragments of diamond, and points of char, coal and plumbago, rapidly... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 316 pages
...wax in the flame of a common candle ; quartz, the saphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion j fragments of diamond, and points of charcoal and plumbago,...rapidly disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it. Such are the decomposing' powers of electricity, that not even insoluble compounds are capable of resisting... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 474 pages
...former, platina, one of the most infusible of bodies, was melted in the arch of flame as readily as wax in the flame of a common candle ; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia and Jime, all entered into. fusion, fragments of diamond, and points of plumbago and charcoal rapidly... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 500 pages
...ascending arch of light, expanded and conical in the middle. WUeu any substance was inELE troduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited. Platinum...plumbago, rapidly disappeared, and seemed to evaporate tn it, even when the connexion was made in ft receiver exhausted by the air-pump; but there was no... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...substance is introduced into this arch, it instantly becomes ignited; platina melts as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime, all enter into fusion : fragments of diamond and points of charcoal and plumbago, rapidly disappear, and... | |
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When any substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle ; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion... 
