 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1881 - 534 pàgines
...edition, London, 1851, page 158, there occurs the following passage: — "It would certainly be esteemed one of the greatest discoveries of the age if any...being placed upon a candlestick, or burned in a lamp." It is claimed for paraffin that it not only fully answers this description, but that it considerably... | |
 | Justus freiherr von Liebig - 1843 - 208 pàgines
...other products of the distillation of coal, the coke, &c., can be sold. It would certainly be esteemed one of the greatest discoveries of the age if any...portable, and capable of being placed upon a candlestick, and burned in a lamp. Wax, tallow, and oil, are combustible gases in a solid or fluid form, which offer... | |
 | 1844 - 640 pàgines
...to be solved by the gas engineers, along with his suggestion about "condensing coal-gas into awhile, dry, solid, odourless substance, portable, and capable of being placed upon a candlestick, • Trait* de Chimie Appligufe, vi. 325. 6nd burned in a lamp !" This may be called a grace beyond... | |
 | 1851 - 520 pàgines
...considered one of the greatest discoveries of the age, if any one could succeed in condensing coal-gas into a white, dry, solid, odourless substance, portable,...that science does not administer to it, and already U the desire of Liebig accomplished. A mineral oil flowed out of coal in Derbyshire, and was obviously... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig - 1851 - 576 pàgines
...products of the distillation of coal, the coke, <fec., can be sold. It would certainly be esteemed one of the greatest discoveries of the age if any...being placed upon a candlestick, or burned in a lamp. Wax, tallow, and oil, are combustible gases in a solid or fluid form, which offer many advantages for... | |
 | Royal School of Mines (Great Britain) - 1852 - 164 pàgines
...Numerous applications follow, and man, forgetting his fear, uses the gun-cotton to silver mirrors, and ty, produce the portraits of his friends on glass, by...mineral oil flowed out of coal in Derbyshire, and \vas obviously produced by a slow process of distillation from the coal. It contained solid paraffine... | |
 | 1852 - 568 pàgines
...Liebig, " one of the greatest discoveries of the age, if any one could succeed in condensing coalgas into a white, dry, solid, odourless substance, portable,...being placed upon a candlestick or burned in a lamp." This greatest of discoveries has actually been made. A mineral oil flows oat of coal in Derbyshire,... | |
 | 1853 - 336 pàgines
...barometers constantly used for observations. SOLID COAL GAS. "Il would be pronounced," says Liebig, "one of the greatest discoveries of the age, if any...being placed upon a candlestick, or burned in a lamp." This greatest of discoveries has actually been made. A mineral oil flows out of coal in Derbyshire,... | |
 | 1853 - 664 pàgines
...of the greatest discoveries of the age," says he, " if any one could succeed in condensing coal-gas into a white, dry, solid, odourless substance, portable,...being placed upon a candlestick or burned in a lamp." Now this very problem Mr. Young appears to have accomplished by distilling coal at a comparatively... | |
 | 1853 - 644 pàgines
...of the greatest discoveries of the age," says he, "if any one could succeed in condensing coal-gas into a white, dry, solid, odourless substance, portable,...being placed upon a candlestick or burned in a lamp." Now this very problem Mr. Young appears to have accomplished by distilling coal at a comparatively... | |
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It would certainly be esteemed one of the greatest discoveries of the age," says he, " if any one could succeed in condensing coal-gas into a white, dry, solid, odourless substance, portable, and capable of being placed upon a candlestick or burned in... 
