Lecture Four: The Chemical History of a Candle - The Nature of the Atmosphere (5/6)
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 90% confidenceSeparates the air into oxygen and nitrogen with Faraday's 1848 apparatus-style demonstrations, showing what supports a flame and what doesn't; the fourth lecture in engineerguy's careful re-staging.
What you'll learn
Lecture 4 of Michael Faraday's 1848 Christmas lectures, "The Chemical History of a Candle", performed with the original demonstrations: the nature of the atmosphere: oxygen and nitrogen.
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