 | 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1822 - 658 pages
...ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common caijdle ; quartz, the saphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion ; fragments...rapidly disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it. Such are the decomposing powers of electricity, that not even insoluble compounds are capable of resisting... | |
 | John Lee Comstock, Sir Richard Phillips - 1822 - 260 pages
...any substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily as wax in the flame of a common candle; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, and lime, all entered into fusion; fragments of diamond, and points of charcoal and plumbago, rapidily... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - 1823 - 722 pages
...became ignited ; platinum melted as readily in it as wax m the flame of a common candle ; quart/,, the sapphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion...connexion was made in a receiver exhausted by the air pump ; but there was no evidence of their having previously undergone fusion i9." The CLOUDS may... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1825 - 252 pages
...any substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily as wax in the flame of a common candle ; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, and lime, all entered into fusion ; fragments of diamond, and points of charcoal of plumbago, rapidly... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 322 pages
...substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited ; plnthia melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle : quartz, the...rapidly disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it. Such are the decomposing powers of electricity, that not even insoluble compounds are capable of resisting... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 254 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 236 pages
...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 seem to evaporate in it. Such are the decomposing powers of electricity, that not even... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1827 - 904 pages
...any substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited. Platinum melted in it, like wax in the flame of a common candle. Quartz, the sapphire,...fusion. Fragments of diamond, and points of charcoal and plunibago,rapidly disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connexion was made in a... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1828 - 872 pages
...any substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited. Platinum melted in it, like wax in the flame of a common candle. Quartz, the sapphire,...fusion. Fragments of diamond, and points of charcoal and plumbngo, rapidly disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connexion was made in a... | |
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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... 
