When heated over 1000° in the open air, it takes fire, and burns with a bluish-white light, and with a thick white smoke of oxide of zinc.
At a glowing heat it takes fire, and burns with a white flame, and with white fumes, forming volatile antimonious acid.
When heated, it takes fire previous to melting, glows like tinder, and is converted into antimonious acid, which is now infusible.
It takes fire in the open air at the temperature of 165 deg.
When applied to a lighted candle it takes fire, swells considerably, and exhales a white smoke of a pungent odour; but does not run into drops.
The oxide proper occurs native, and may be readily formed by exposing the metal to a red-white heat in a muffle, when it takes fire, burns with a faint blue flame, and sends off fumes which condense into a yellow pulverulent oxide.
When heated in the air, it takes fire, and burns very vividly.
P takes fire at 60 degrees, but even at 10 degrees it oxidizes with rapidity enough to produce phosphorescence.
Heat the mixture, and as the gas passes over and into the air, it takes fire spontaneously, and rings of smoke successively rise.
Also press down on the flame for an instant with a cardboard or piece of paper; remove before it takes fire, and notice the charred circle.
The most serious accidents have occurred from carelessness in this respect, as a mixture of hydrogen and air is explosive, and the more dangerous when it takes fire in any closed glass bottle.
Thus, charcoal when raised to the temperature of 800° in the open air, takes fire.
The cannel coal, known in Scotland by the name of parrot coal, is very inflammable, takes fire immediately, and produces a brilliant flame.
It takes fire on the approach of a lighted taper, and burns with a bluish flame, yielding a thick smoke.
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