 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1816 - 478 pages
...to whiteness by an explosive mixture containing the fire-damp, without producing its inflammation. An iron rod at the highest degree of red heat, and at the common degree of white heat, did not inflame explosive mixtures of the fire-damp ; but, when in brilliant combustion, it produced... | |
 | 1816 - 442 pages
...to whiteness by an explosive mixture containing the fire-damp, without producing its inflammation. An iron rod at the highest degree of red heat, and at the common degree of white heat, did not inflame explosive mixtures of the fire-damp ; but, when in brilliant combustion, it produced... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1825 - 174 pages
...to whiteness by an explosive mixture containing the fire-damp, without producing its inflammation. An iron rod at the highest degree of red heat, and at the common degree of white heat, did not inflame explosive mixtures of the fire-damp ; but, when in brilliant combustion, it produced... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1830 - 682 pages
...to whiteness by an explosive mixture containing the fire-damp, without producing its inflammation. An iron rod at the highest degree of red heat, and at the common degree of white heat, did not inflame explosive mixtures of the fire-damp ; but, when in brilliant combustion, it produced... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 440 pages
...inflammable gases, inasmuch as it requires a far higher temperature before it can be set on fire ; an iron rod, at the highest degree of red heat, and at the common degree of white heat, did not inflame explosive mixtures of the fire-damp, and an explosion only took place when a flame... | |
 | Artizan club (London, England) - 1847 - 338 pages
...flame, may be blown up to whiteness by an explosive mixture consisting of air and carburetted hydrogvn. An iron rod at the highest degree of red heat, and at the common degree of while beat, will not inflame such a mixture, but when in brilliant combustion it will produce the effect.... | |
 | John Bourne - 1851 - 346 pages
...well burned charcoal, that is, charcoal that will burn without flame, may be blown up to whiteness by an explosive mixture consisting of air and carburetted...explosive mixture of air and carburetted hydrogen. Oli'fiant gas and carbonic oxide may both be inflamed by iron heated to redness or by charcoal ; and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 724 pages
...common inflammable gase*, inasmuch as it requires a far higher temperature before it can be set on fire; an iron rod, at the highest degree of red heat, and at the common degree of white heat, did not inflame explosive mixtures of the fire-damp, and an explosion only took place when a flame... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...inflammable gases, inasmuch as it requires a far higher temperature before it can be set on fire; on iron rod, at the highest degree of red heat, and at the common degree of white heat, did not inflame explosive mixtures of the fire-damp, and an explosion only took place when a flame... | |
 | Sheridan Muspratt - 1853 - 310 pages
...to whiteness, by an explosive mixture containing the fire-damp, without producing its inflammation. An iron rod at the highest degree of red heat, and at the common degree of white heat, did not inflame explosive mixtures of the gas; but when in brilliant combustion, it produced the effect.... | |
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... charcoal that burned without flame, was blown up to whiteness by an explosive mixture containing the fire-damp, without producing its inflammation. An iron rod at the highest degree of red heat, and at the common degree of white heat, did not inflame... 
