id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 14474 Faraday, Michael The Chemical History of a Candle .txt text/plain 42170 1917 77 BRIGHTNESS OF THE FLAME--AIR NECESSARY FOR COMBUSTION--PRODUCTION OF WATER gradual supply of air to that place of action--heat and light--all this piece of lime in the flame of the hydrogen as it burns in the oxygen, candle, and shew you a substance like zinc burning in the flame, you will and find that if they burn with a flame, as a candle, they produce water. substance equally from water produced from the candle-flame as from any Inasmuch as the candle produces water, and this gas comes out of the candle burn to produce water without it? than what is produced by the burning of the candle in air. air as the candle would burn in--and here is a jar or bottle containing It is water produced from the candle by the action of the air with air; and if I put a little lime-water into it, neither the oxygen nor ./cache/14474.txt ./txt/14474.txt