It is also remarkable," he continues in the text, " that alcohol burnt in an open vessel, or in a lamp with a metallic wick, gives but little of the yellow light ; while if the wick be of cotton it gives a considerable quantity, and that for an unlimited... Gesammelte Abhandlungen - Page 623by Kirchhoff - 1882 - 641 pagesFull view - About this book
| Science - 1826 - 460 pages
...of water. SO Mr Talbofs Experiments on Coloured Flame*. so remarkable that alcohol burnt in an open vessel, or in a lamp with a metallic wick, gives but...be of cotton, it gives a considerable quantity, and that/or an unlimited time. (I have found other instances of a change of colour in flames, owing to... | |
| Science - 1826 - 418 pages
...with which water is supposed to have no analogy. * It is also remarkable that alcohol burnt in an open vessel, or in a lamp with a metallic wick, gives but...be of cotton, it gives a considerable quantity, and thatjCor an unlimited time. (I have found other instances of a change of colour in flames, owing to... | |
| Chemistry - 1861 - 410 pages
...•with which water is supposed to have no analogy.1 It is also remarkable that alcohol burnt in an open vessel, or in a lamp with a metallic! wick, gives...of colour in flames owing to the mere presence of a substance which suffers no diminution in consequence. Thus, a particle of muriate of lime on the... | |
| Physics - 1863 - 708 pages
...of water. u »It is also remarkable«, fährt er dann im Texte fort, «that alcohol burnt in an open vessel, or in a lamp with a metallic wick , gives...if the wick be of cotton, it gives a considerable (juantity, and that for an unlimited time. (I have found otiier instances of a chana e of colour in... | |
| Chemistry - 1863 - 694 pages
...«that alcohol burnt in an open vessel, or in a tamp with a metallic wick , gives but little of t he yellow light ; while if the wick be of cotton, it...considerable quantity, and that for an unlimited time. (I haw found other instances of a change of colour in flames owln^ to the mere presence of the substance... | |
| Henry E. Roscoe - 1869 - 372 pages
...that of water/' " It is also remarkable," he continues in the text, " that alcohol burnt in an open vessel, or in a lamp with a metallic wick, gives but...owing to the mere presence of the .substance, which suffers no diminution in consequence. Thus a, particle of muriate of lime on the wick of a spirit-lamp... | |
| sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1869 - 396 pages
...that of water." " It is also remarkable," he continues in the text, "that alcohol burnt in an open vessel, or in a lamp with a metallic wick, gives but...owing to the mere presence of the substance, which svffers no diminution in consequence. Thus a particle of muriate of lime on the wick of a spirit-lamp... | |
| Henry Enfield Roscoe - Spectrum analysis - 1870 - 514 pages
...that of water." "It is also remarkable," he continues in the text, " that alcohol burnt in an open vessel, or in a lamp with a metallic wick, gives but...owing to the mere presence of the substance, which suffers no diminution in consequence. Thus a particle of muriate of lime on the wick of a spirit-lamp... | |
| Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer - Spectrum analysis - 1870 - 360 pages
...of water. " „It is also remarkable," fährt er dann im Text fort, „that alcohol burnt in a open vessel, or in a lamp with a metallic wick, gives but...considerable quantity, and that for an unlimited time. ([ have found other instances of a change of colour in flames, owing to the mere presence of the substance... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1872 - 914 pages
...instance, in Brewster's Journal for 1826, vol. vp 77, &c., I remarked that alcohol burnt in an open vessel, or in a lamp with a metallic wick, gives but little yellow monochromatic light, while if the wick be of cotton, it gives a considerable quantity, and that... | |
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