The Chemical History of a Candle -

Michael Faraday

Dover Publications

2002

230 páginas

7h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780486425429

The greatest experimental scientist Michael Faraday delivered these six lectures at London's Royal Institution. Their subjects include the components, function, and weight of the atmosphere; capillary attraction; the carbon content in oxygen and living bodies; respiration and its analogy to the burning of a candle; and much more.