... vessel, or in a lamp with a metallic wick, gives but little of the yellow light ; while, if the wick be of cotton, it gives a considerable quantity, and that for an unlimited time. (I have found other instances of a change of colour in flames, owing... Annalen der Physik und Chemie - Page 1001863Full view - About this book
| Kirchhoff - 1882 - 676 pages
...instances of a change of colour in flames owing to the mere presence of the substance which sufl'ers no diminution in consequence. Thus, a particle of muriate...diminished.)" Die gelbe Linie schreibt er in den späteren Theilen der Abhandlung dann bald Natronsalzeu, bald dem Schwefel zu. So sagt er bei der schon erwähnten... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait - 1885 - 344 pages
...flame, a particle of common salt or of some other metallic chloride. Fox Talbot, in 1826, wrote : " A particle of muriate of lime on the wick of a spiritlamp...evening without being itself sensibly diminished." Swan traced the source of the peculiar orange ray which appears in the light of almost every flame... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait - 1894 - 388 pages
...flame, a particle of common salt or of some other metallic chloride. Fox Talbot, in 1826, wrote : " A particle of muriate of lime on the wick of a spiritlamp...evening without being itself sensibly diminished." Swan traced the source of the peculiar orange ray which appears in the light of almost every flame... | |
| Heinrich Kayser - 1900 - 820 pages
...instances of a change of colour in flames owing to the mere presence of the substance which suffers no diminution in consequence. Thus, a particle of muriate...quantity of red and green rays for a whole evening withont beeng itself sensibly diminished)." Er sagt weiter, bei der Verbrennung von Schwefel mit Salpeter... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872 - 882 pages
...instances of a change of colour in flames, owing to the mere presence of a substance which suffers no diminution in consequence. Thus, a particle of muriate of lime on the wick of a spirit lamp will produce a quantity of red and green rays for a whole evening without being itself... | |
| 1863 - 1212 pages
...instances of a change of colour in flames, owing to the mere presence of the substance, which suffers no diminution in consequence. Thus a particle of muriate...evening without being itself' sensibly diminished"*.) In a later portion of the memoir he attributes the yellow line in one place to the presence of soda-salts,... | |
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