 | Jerome Bruce Crabtree - 1901 - 792 pages
...was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited; platina melted as readily in it as wax in a common candle; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion ; fragmerits of diamond and points of charcoal and plumbago rapidly disappeared and seemed to evaporate... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 378 pages
...was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited; platina melted as readily in it as wax in a common candle; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime,...fragments of diamond and points of charcoal and plumbago seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connection was made in the receiver of an air-pump; but there... | |
 | 1922 - 736 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...disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connection was made in a receiver exhausted by the air pump ; but there was no evidence of their having... | |
 | 1922 - 734 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...disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connection was made in a receiver exhausted by the air pump ; but there was no evidence of their having... | |
 | General Electric Company - 1908 - 334 pages
...he left a record of his experiments in this connection. " Platinum," he says, "was melted as readily as wax in the flame of a common candle; quartz, the...sapphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion." As in the case of the electric arc light, however, for lack of an economical and abundant source of... | |
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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... 
