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Project Gutenberg #14474

The Chemical History of a Candle

Michael Faraday

1861

Faraday's celebrated lectures using a candle to explain chemistry and physics, prepared lecture by lecture from Project Gutenberg HTML.

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LECTURE V.

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acid than of the air. And now, having so far given you the history of the carbonic acid—as to its sources in the candle, as to its physical properties and weight—when we next meet I shall shew you of what it is composed, and where it gets its elements from.

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