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"That depends, uncle," said the young gentleman, "on whether he had lighted the candle to see with at night, or by daylight, to seal a letter." "Eh! Very good, now! 'Pon my word, very good," exclaimed Uncle Bagges. "You must be Lord Chancellor, sir Lord Chancellor, one of these days."
Strange, if true," answered Mr. Bagges. "Eh? Well! I suppose it's all right." "Quite so, uncle. Burn carbon or charcoal either in the air or in oxygen, and it is sure always to make carbonic acid, and nothing else, if it is dry. No dew or mist gathers in a cold glass jar if you burn dry charcoal in it.
Think of a locomotive and its train, every engine, every carriage, and even every rail would be set on fire and burnt up. So now, uncle, I think you see what the use of nitrogen is, and especially how it prevents a candle from burning out too fast." "Eh?" said Mr. Bagges. "Well, I will say I do think we are under considerable obligations to nitrogen."
Hence the greatest attention was paid by them to the wishes of Mr. Bagges, as well as to every observation which he might be pleased to make. "Eh! what? you sir," said Mr. Bagges, facetiously addressing himself to his eldest nephew, Harry, "Eh! what? I am glad to hear, sir, that you are doing well at school. Now eh? now, are you clever enough to tell where was Moses when he put the candle out?"
Whereupon we returned towards our shippes, and landing to stoppe a floud, we found the burial of these miscreants; we found of their fish in bagges, plaices, and calpin dried, of which wee tooke onely one bagge and departed. It is a shame to beare them. I desired them to be content, and said, I doubted not but all should be wel.
Well, carbon, or charcoal is what causes the brightness of all lamps, and candles, and other common lights; so, of course, there is carbon in what they are all made of." "So carbon is smoke, eh? and light is owing to your carbon. Giving light out of smoke, eh? as they say in the classics," observed Mr. Bagges. "But what becomes of the candle," pursued Harry, "as it burns away? where does it go?"
Bagges, "I am very glad to find you so fond of study and science; and you deserve to be encouraged: and so I'll give you a what-d'ye-call-it'? a Galvanic Battery, on your next birth-day; and so much for your teaching your old uncle the chemistry of a candle." Mr.
The charcoal goes entirely into carbonic acid gas, and leaves nothing behind but ashes, which are only earthy stuff that was in the charcoal, but not part of the charcoal itself. And now, shall I tell you something about carbon?" "With all my heart," assented Mr. Bagges. "I said that there was carbon or charcoal in all common lights, so there is in every common kind of fuel.
"And so," resumed Harry, "hydrogen, you know, uncle, is part of water, and just one-ninth part." "As hydrogen is to water, so is a tailor to an ordinary individual, eh?" Mr. Bagges remarked. "Well, now then, uncle, if hydrogen is the tailor's part of the water, what are the other eight parts?
"'If a house were on fire in oxygen, as Professor Faraday said, 'every iron bar, or rafter, or pillar, every nail and iron tool, and the fire-place itself; all the zinc and copper roofs, and leaden coverings, and gutters, and pipes, would consume and burn, increasing the combustion." "That would be, indeed, burning 'like a house on fire," observed Mr. Bagges.
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