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The Chemical History of a Candle Michael Faraday Public domain text from Project Gutenberg. 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 adapted to its office; the whale, seal, or bear fat, filling the hut of the Esquimaux or Lap with odour rather than light; the huge wax candle on the glittering 1 altar, the range of gas lamps in our streets, all have their stories to tell. All, if they could speak (and, after their own manner, they can), might warm our hearts in telling, how they have ministered to man s comfort, love of home, toil, and devotion. Surely, among the millions of fire-worshippers and fire-users who have passed away in earlier ages, _some_ have pondered over the mystery of fire; perhaps some clear minds have guessed shrewdly near the truth. Think of the time man has lived in hopeless ignorance: think that only during a period which might be spanned by the life of one man, has the truth been…

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LECTURE II. BRIGHTNESS OF THE FLAME AIR NECESSARY FOR COMBUSTION PRODUCTION OF WATER LECTURE III. PRODUCTS: WATER FROM THE COMBUSTION NATURE OF WATER A COMPOUND HYDROGEN LECTURE IV. HYDROGEN IN THE CANDLE BURNS INTO WATER THE OTHER PART OF WATER OXYGEN LECTURE V. OXYGEN PRESENT IN THE AIR NATURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE ITS PROPERTIES OTHER PRODUCTS FROM THE CANDLE CARBONIC ACID ITS PROPERTIES LECTURE VI. CARBON OR CHARCOAL COAL-GAS RESPIRATION AND ITS ANALOGY TO THE BURNING OP A CANDLE CONCLUSION LECTURE ON PLATINUM. NOTES. THE CHEMICAL HISTORY OF A CANDLE LECTURE I. A CANDLE: THE FLAME ITS SOURCES STRUCTURE MOBILITY BRIGHTNESS. 3

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The Chemical History of a Candle