 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Mathematics - 1816 - 478 pages
...considering the nature of the flame of combustible bodies, which, in all cases, must be considered as the combustion of an explosive mixture of inflammable gas, or vapour and air ; for it cannot be regarded as a mere combustion at the surface of contact of the inflammable matter... | |
 | 1816 - 572 pages
...not consist in ' a mere combustion at the surface of contact of the inflammable matter,' but rather ' as the combustion of an explosive mixture of inflammable gas, or vapour and air.' On this einciple we are to explain the extraordinary results of Sir . Davy's experiments. A considerable... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1816 - 442 pages
...by considering the nature of the flame of combustible bodies, which in all cases must be considered as the combustion of an explosive mixture of inflammable gas, or vapour and air; for it cannot be regarded as a mere combustion at the surface of contact to the inflammable matter... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1821 - 436 pages
...light and the heat -uihich compose it. The flame of combustible bodies may in all cases be considered, as the combustion of an explosive mixture of inflammable gas, or vapour, with air. It cannot be regarded as a mere combustion, at the surface of contact, of the inflammable... | |
 | Jöns Jakob Berzelius - Blowpipe - 1822 - 426 pages
...to be gaseous matter, heated to such a degree as to be luminous), in all cases, must be " considered as the combustion of an explosive mixture of inflammable gas, or vapour, and air, for it cannot be regarded as a mere combustion at the surface of contact of the inflammable matter... | |
 | Jöns Jakob Berzelius (friherre) - Analytical chemistry - 1822 - 402 pages
...to be gaseous matter, heated to such a degree as to be luminous), in all cases, must be " considered as the combustion of an explosive mixture of inflammable gas, or vapour, and air, for it cannot be regarded as a mere combustion at the surface of contact of the inflammable matter... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - Coal mines and mining - 1825 - 174 pages
...considering the nature of the flame of combustible bodies, which, in all cases, must be considered as the combustion of an explosive mixture of inflammable gas, or vapour and air; for it cannot be regarded as a mere combustion at the surface of contact of the inflammable matter... | |
 | Agriculture - 1825 - 510 pages
...states, in page 46 of his Researches, that flame of combustible bodies may in all cases be considered as the combustion of an explosive mixture of inflammable gas, or vapour, with air. It cannot be regarded as a mere combustion, 1825.] Mr. Davieson Flame. 449 at the surface... | |
 | Science - 1826 - 454 pages
...following opinions conclusive? ** The flame of combustible bodies, in all cases, must be considered as the combustion of an explosive mixture of inflammable gas, or vapour, and air ; for it cannot be regarded as a mere * If it were merely carried off by the current of heated air,... | |
 | John Timbs - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1831 - 302 pages
...and heat which compose it," says, " The flame of combustible bodies may, in all cases, be considered as the combustion of an explosive mixture of inflammable gas or vapour with air. It cannot be regarded as a mere combustion at the surface of contact of the inflammable matter.... | |
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These results are best explained by considering the nature of the flame of combustible bodies — which, in all cases, must be considered as the combustion of an explosive mixture of inflammable gas, or vapour and air... 
