 When the inflammable gas forms as much as one-twelfth of the volume of the air, the cylinder becomes filled with a feeble blue flame, but the flame of the wick appears burning brightly within the blue flame, and the light of the wick...  The Journal of Science and the Arts - Page 31817Full view - About this book
 | 1817 - 382 pages
...fire-damp is to increase the length and size of the flame. When the inflammable gas forms as much as •3^ of the volume of the air, the cylinder becomes filled...wick continues till the fire-damp increases to | or -J-, when it is * Theie instruments are made and sold by Mr. Newman, mathematical instrument maker,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...is to increase the length and size of the flame. When the inflammable gas forms as much as 1-1 2th of the volume of the air, the cylinder becomes filled,...the wick continues till the fire-damp increases to l-6th or 15th, when it is lost in the flame of the fire-damp, which in this case fills the cylinder... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 418 pages
...fire-damp, is to increase the length and size of the flame. When the inflammable gas forms as much as -f¡ of the volume of the air, the cylinder becomes filled...brightly within the blue flame, and the light of the wick aug. ments till the fire-damp increases to g or y, when it is lost in the flame of the fire-damp, which... | |
 | Colin MacKenzie - 1821 - 724 pages
...the volume of air, the cylinder becomes filled with a feeble blue flame ; liuttlie flameof tliewick appears burning brightly within the blue flame, and the light of the wick continues, until the fire-damp increases to onesixth orone-fifth, when it is lost in tbetlameof thefiredamp, which... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 512 pages
...of the air, the cylinder becomes filled xvith a feeble blue flame, but the flame of the wick appear* burning brightly within the blue flame, and the light of the wick aug. mcnts till the fire-damp increases to g or \, when it is lost in the flame of the fire-damp, which... | |
 | Colin Mackenzie - 1822 - 774 pages
...length and size of the flame. When the inflammable gas forms as much as one-twentieth of the volume of air, the cylinder becomes filled with a feeble blue flame ; but the flame of the wick appears burningbrightly within the blue flame, and the light of the wick continues, until the fire-damp increases... | |
 | Luke Herbert - 1824 - 394 pages
...fire-damp is to increase the length and size pf the flame. When the inflammable gas forms as much as l-12th of the volume of the air, the cylinder becomes filled...brightly within the blue flame, and the light of the wick augments till the fire-damp increases to J or J, when it is lost in the flame of the fire-damp ; which,... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1829 - 600 pages
...increa«e the length and size of the dame. When the innommable gas forms as much as one-twelfth uf the volume of the air, the cylinder becomes filled...brightly within the blue flame, and the light of the wick augments till the fire-damp increase* to one-sixth or one-fifth, when it is lost in the flame of the... | |
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