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The Chemical History of a Candle

Michael Faraday

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 110 pages

The Chemical History of a Candle is a collection of lectures Michael Faraday gave to a young audience at the Royal Institution. Using the burning candle as a central example, he explains combustion, air, water, and carbon dioxide, turning an everyday object into an introduction to chemistry. It is worth listening to for its clear demonstrations and encouragement of curiosity.

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THE CHEMICAL

HISTORY OF A CANDLE

A COURSE OF LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE A JUVENILE AUDIENCE AT THE

ROYAL INSTITUTION

BY

MICHAEL FARADAY, D.C.L., F.R.S.

EDITED BY

WILLIAM CROOKES, F.C.S.

A NEW IMPRESSION, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON

CHATTO & WINDUS

1908

PREFACE

From the primitive pine-torch to the paraffin candle, how wide an interval! between them how vast a contrast! The means adopted by man to illuminate his home at night, stamp at once his position in the scale of civilisation. The fluid bitumen of the far East, blazing in rude vessels of baked earth; the Etruscan lamp, exquisite in form, yet ill

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Contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. THE CHEMICAL HISTORY OF A CANDLE
  4. LECTURE II.
  5. LECTURE III.
  6. LECTURE IV.
  7. LECTURE V.
  8. LECTURE VI.
  9. LECTURE ON PLATINUM.
  10. NOTES.
  11. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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