Lecture Five: The Chemical History of a Candle - Respiration & the Burning of a Candle (6/6)
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 90% confidenceCloses the Faraday series by linking a burning candle to human breathing, with carbon dioxide traced through both; Hammack's recreation keeps Faraday's own words and experiments.
What you'll learn
Lecture 5 of Michael Faraday's 1848 Christmas lectures, "The Chemical History of a Candle", performed with the original demonstrations: respiration and the burning of a candle, linking combustion to breathing.
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