The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday

The Chemical History of a Candle

Michael Faraday

78 pages first pub 1861 (editions)

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
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From the primitive pine-torch to the paraffin candle, how wide an interval between them how vast a contrast The means adopted by man to illuminate his home at night, stamp at once his position in the scale of civilisation. The fluid bitumen of t...

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