 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1812 - 352 pàgines
...any substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle ; quartz,...all entered into fusion ; fragments of diamond, and pobts of charcoal and plumbago, rapidly disappeared, and seemed to • evaporate in it, even when the... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1815 - 598 pàgines
...substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in if, as wax in the flame of a common candle ; quartz, the...in a receiver exhausted by the air-pump, but there was no evidence of their having previously undergone fusion. When the commumcation between the points... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 712 pàgines
...any substance was introduced into this arch it in. M.inlly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle : quartz,...entered into fusion; fragments of diamond, and points of char, coal and plumbago, rapidly disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connexion... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 688 pàgines
...any substance was introduced into this arch it in. stantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle : quartz,...entered into fusion; fragments of diamond, and points of char, coal and plumbago, rapidly disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connexion... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 710 pàgines
...any substance was introduced into this arch it in. stantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle : quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, linn-, all entered into fusion; fragments of diamond, and points of char, coal and plumbago, rapidly... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 pàgines
...any substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle ; quartz, the saphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion j fragments of diamond, and points of charcoal and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 476 pàgines
...the former, platina, one of the most infusible of bodies, was melted in the arch of flame as readily as wax in the flame of a common candle ; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia and Jime, all entered into. fusion, fragments of diamond, and points of plumbago and charcoal rapidly... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 512 pàgines
...substance was inELE troduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited. Platinum melted in it, like wax in the flame of a common candle. Quartz, the sapphire,...plumbago, rapidly disappeared, and seemed to evaporate tn it, even when the connexion was made in ft receiver exhausted by the air-pump; but there was no... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pàgines
...any substance is introduced into this arch, it instantly becomes ignited; platina melts as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime, all enter into fusion : fragments of diamond and points of charcoal and plumbago, rapidly disappear, and... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1822 - 658 pàgines
...ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common caijdle ; quartz, the saphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion ; fragments...rapidly disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it. Such are the decomposing powers of electricity, that not even insoluble compounds are capable of resisting... | |
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... equal at least to four inches, producing a most brilliant ascending arch of light, broad, and conical in form in the middle.* When any substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in... 
