The great inflammability of camphor is to be ascribed to its containing a large quantity of carbon and hydrogen, and a small quantity of oxygen.
The pyrotechnical spunge owes its inflammability to nitre.
It then takes up practical considerations as to the danger of explosions, including the relative inflammability of old and fresh coal dust.
Apparently unknown to Murdock, previous observations had been made as to the inflammability of gas from coal.
In burning wood man noticed that a resinous or fatty material increased the inflammability and added greatly to the amount of light emitted.
In his process he permitted the gas to ascend through curved tubes, and he particularly noted "its great inflammability as well as elasticity.
The famous German chemist Becher was, I believe, the first who rejected the notion of sulphur being the principle of inflammability in bodies.
This very crude opinion of the earthy nature of the principle of inflammability appears to have been deduced from a quality of many of the inflammable substances, by which they resist the action of water as a solvent.
So that there seems a fourth Ingredient necessary to make Gunpowder readily take Fire by Flame, and that such a one, as will heighten the Inflammability of the Sulphur.
This Inflammability has occasion'd many terrible Accidents.
A rough-and-ready method of testing the inflammability of a sample is to pour a little out on a dry flat board, and try whether it can be ignited readily by a lighted paper.
From the great inflammability of phosphorus it can only be safely preserved under water.
Caro has seen one specimen of (bad) carbide which gave a spontaneously inflammable gas although it contained only traces of phosphine; its inflammability being caused by 2.
No doubt the spontaneous inflammability was due to the exceptional richness of these lumps in phosphorus.
The man who first applied the inflammability of gas to the purposes of illumination, was Mr. Murdoch.
The inflammability of the fluid he thus produced was no part of his inquiry; and though it is now deemed its most useful and important property, appears to have excited no attention till several years after.
This paper, as it contains some striking facts relating to the inflammability and other properties of coal-gas, is deserving of particular attention.
He dwells upon the elasticity and inflammability of coal-gas; and remarked, that it retains these properties after passing through a great quantity of water.
The velocity and duration of the wind, the temperature, the precipitation, and the relative humidity are all factors which greatly affect the inflammability of the forest.
Fires behave differently, once they get started, depending upon the character of the timber, the amount of wind, and the degree of inflammability of the forest cover.
Risk depends, of course, largely upon the character and inflammability of the forest cover and the presence of human causes.
But while the inflammability of wood may be removed, it is questionable if it can be rendered entirely incombustible.
True Camphor hath the levity, the volatility, and the inflammability of AEther.
The inflammability of Oil evidently proves that it contains the phlogiston.
To this Oil, which is one of its constituent parts, its inflammability is owing; and the Acid imparts to this Oil the property of mixing with water, more perfectly and more intimately than when it makes a part of any other compound.
On the Inflammability of the Surface of certain Rivers in America.
The objection of inflammability of the lifting power has also been overcome.
But this by no means follows; since its inflammability may depend upon some particular mode of combination, or degree of affinity, with which we are not acquainted.
The greater degree of inflammability appeared by the greater number of successive explosions, when a candle was presented to the neck of a phial filled with it.
Another quantity of inflammable air was also reduced in the same proportion, by a mouse putrefying in it; but its inflammability was not seemingly lessened.
Whence this inflammability proceeds, I am not able to determine, the lime or chalk not being supposed to contain any other than fixed air.
Or rather, it may be the same thing with inflammable air, that has lost its inflammability by long standing in water.
The former, indeed, was not so highly inflammable as when it was fresh made, but the latter was quite as much so; and the diminution of inflammability in the former case, I attribute to some other cause than the growth of the plant.
They have to be ventilated specially, on account of the high inflammability of the celluloid composition.
Unquestionably there was no danger of a serious conflagration in any part of Manton's plant, despite the high inflammability of the film itself, of the flimsy stage sets, of practically everything used in picture manufacture.
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