 | 1817 - 428 pages
...a drop of alcohol into a warm one. Let a few ceils of wire of platinum of the -/„ °r vo °' al) inch be heated at a hot poker or a candle, and let...almost white hot, and will continue so as long as as & sufficient quantity of vapour and of air remain in the glass. When the experiment on the slow... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...or a drop of alcohol into a warm one; let a few coils of wire of platinum, of the l-60th or 1.70th of an inch, be heated at a hot poker or a candle, and let it be brought into the glass: In some part of the glass, it will become glowing, almost white-hot, and will continue so, as long... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1825 - 174 pages
...alcohol into a warm one. Let a few coils of wire of platinum of the one-sixtieth or one-seventieth of ah inch be heated at a hot poker or a candle, and let...almost white hot, and will continue so as long as a 106 sufficient quantity of vapour and of air remain in the glass*. When the experiment on the slow... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1827 - 904 pages
...ldglaas,oridropofalcohol intoa warm one; letafew coils ofwire ofplatinum, of the 1.60th or 1.70th of an inch, be bested at a hot poker or a candle, and let It be brought into the glass : In some part of the glaitsit will huomaglowln& a1¿¿ost white.bot, and will continue so, as Ion¿... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 pages
...or a drop of alcohol into a warm one ; Jet a few coils of wire of platinum, of the l-60th or l-70th of an inch, be heated at a hot poker or a candle, and let it be brought into the glass : in some part of the glass it will become glowing, almost white-hot, and will continue so as long... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 pages
...an inch be heated by a hot poker or candle, and let it be brought into the glass ; it will presently become glowing, almost white hot, and will continue...quantity of vapour and of air remain in the glass.* This experiment on the slow combustion of ether is accompanied with * This principle has been applied... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...an inch be heated by a hot poker or candle, and let it be brought into the glass ; it will presently become glowing, almost white hot, and will continue...quantity of vapour and of air remain in the glass.* This experiment on the slow combustion of ether is accompanied with * This principle has been applied... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1831 - 980 pages
...drop of alcohol into a warm one ; let a few coils of wire of platinum, of the 1 -(il lib or i -Tilth of an inch, be heated at a hot poker or a candle, and let it be brought into the glass : In some part of the glass it will become glowing, almost white-hot, and will continue so, as long... | |
 | John Joseph Griffin - 1847 - 584 pages
...held in the glass over the ether: in some parts of the glass it will become glowing, almost white-hot, and will continue so, as long as a sufficient quantity of vapour and air remain in the glass. Lamp without Flame. — Take platinum wire, about I -100th of an inch in thickness.... | |
 | John Joseph Griffin - 1860 - 636 pages
...held in the glass over the ether : in some parts of the glass it will become glowmg, almost white-hot, and will continue so, as long as a sufficient quantity of vapour and air remain in the glass. Lamp icitlwitt Flame. — Take platinum wire, about the looth of an inch in... | |
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... become glowing, almost white hot, and will continue so as long as a sufficient quantity of vapour and of air remain in the glass. When the experiment on the slow combustion of ether is made in the dark, a pale phosphorescent light is perceived above... 