| Charles William Sleeman - 1880 - 462 páginas
...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...disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connection was made in a receiver exhausted by the air pump ; but there was no evidence of their having... | |
| Thomas Corwin Mendenhall - 1887 - 246 páginas
...was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited; platina melted as readily in it as wax in a common candle ; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia,...disappeared and seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connection was made in a receiver exhausted by the air-pump ; but there was no evidence of their having... | |
| Sir John Ambrose Fleming - 1894 - 276 páginas
...4in., producing a most brilliant ascending arch of light, broad and conical in form in the middle. Fragments of diamond and points of charcoal and plumbago...rapidly disappeared and seemed to evaporate in it, but there was no evidence of their having previously undergone fusion." We may repeat his experiments... | |
| John Tyndall - 1895 - 220 páginas
...introduced Into this arch, it instantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the name of a common candle ; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia,...all entered into fusion ; fragments of diamond, and pointa of charcoal and plumbago, rapidly disappeared, and seemed to evapo141. Dr. Werner Siemens was... | |
| Jerome Bruce Crabtree - 1901 - 792 páginas
...was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited; platina melted as readily in it as wax in a common candle; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime,...rapidly disappeared and seemed to evaporate in it." * Davy had produced an electric light but the large batteries necessary for its production were expensive... | |
| Jerome Bruce Crabtree - 1901 - 792 páginas
...was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited; platina melted as readily in it as wax in a common candle; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion ; fragmerits of diamond and points of charcoal and plumbago rapidly disappeared and seemed to evaporate... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 378 páginas
...was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited; platina melted as readily in it as wax in a common candle; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime,...fragments of diamond and points of charcoal and plumbago seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connection was made in the receiver of an air-pump; but there... | |
| 1922 - 736 páginas
...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...disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connection was made in a receiver exhausted by the air pump ; but there was no evidence of their having... | |
| 1922 - 734 páginas
...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...disappeared, and seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connection was made in a receiver exhausted by the air pump ; but there was no evidence of their having... | |
| General Electric Company - 1908 - 334 páginas
...left a record of his experiments in this connection. " Platinum," he says, "was melted as readily as wax in the flame of a common candle; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion." As in the case of the electric arc light, however, for lack of an economical and abundant source of... | |
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