The Chemical History of a Candle
Subtitle: A Course of Lectures Delivered Before a Juvenile Audience at the Royal Institution
Publisher: The Viking Press
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Soft Cover
Number of pages: 64
Description: Explorer Books Edition
Table of contents: title: vii
label: Introduction to the Explorer edition; title: xxi
label: Preface by William Crookes; label: LECTURE I. A Candle: The Flame. Its Sources.; title: 3
label: Structure . Mobility . Brightness; label: LECTURE II. A Candle: Brightness of the Flame . Air; label: Necessary for Combustion . Production; title: 19
label: of Water; label: LECTURE III. Products: Water from the Combustion.; label: Nature of Water . A Compound . Hy-; title: 32
label: drogen; label: LECTURE IV. Hydrogen in the Candle . Burns into; label: Water . The Other Part of Water .; title: 49
label: Oxygen; label: LECTURE V. Oxygen Present in the Air . Nature of; label: the Atmosphere . Its Properties . Other; label: Products from the Candle . Carbonic; label: Acid . Its Properties
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title: 64; label: LECTURE VI. Carbon or Charcoal . Coal Gas . Respira-; label: tion and Its Analogy to the Burning of; label: a Candle . Conclusion
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title: 82; title: 101
label: Notes by William Crookes