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Lecture 7: Flames As Illuminants

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SourceRadiation, Light and Illumination
Year1909
Section IDradiation-light-and-illumination-lecture-07
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LECTURE VII. FLAMES AS ILLUMINANTS. 56. Two main classes of illuminants exist: those producing radiation by the conversion of the chemical energy of com- bustion— the flames — and those deriving the energy of radia- tion from electric energy — the incandescent lamp and the arc lamp, and other less frequently used electric illuminants. Flames. To produce light from the chemical energy of combustion, almost exclusively hydrocarbon flames are used, as the gas flame, the candle, the oil lamp, the gasolene and kerosene lamp, etc.; that is, compounds of hydrogen and carbon or of hydrogen, carbon and some oxygen are burned. The hydrogen, H, com- bines with the oxygen, 0, of the air to water vapor, H20, and the carbon, C, with the oxygen of the air, to carbon dioxide, C02; or, if the air
LECTURE VII. FLAMES AS ILLUMINANTS. 56. Two main classes of illuminants exist: those producing radiation by the conversion of the chemical energy of com- bustion— the flames — and those deriving the energy of radia- tion from electric energy — the incandescent lamp and the arc lamp, and other less frequently used electric illuminants. Flames. To produce light from the chemic ...
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radiation-light-and-illumination-eq-candidate-0174Thus methane, CH4, does not give a luminous flame, since it con-line 6663
radiation-light-and-illumination-eq-candidate-0175carbon atom. Ethane, C2H6, with a = 3, still gives a luminousline 6879
radiation-light-and-illumination-eq-candidate-0176side, the gasolene flame, a = 2.33, is slightly smoky. However,line 6881
radiation-light-and-illumination-eq-candidate-0177flame of the parafnne candle a = 2.08 is still smokeless butline 6885
radiation-light-and-illumination-eq-candidate-0178J in. or less diameter, even acetylene, a = 1, gives smokelessline 6887
radiation-light-and-illumination-eq-candidate-0179gives smokeless flames even up to b = 50, or one carbon atomline 6893
radiation-light-and-illumination-eq-candidate-0180to two hydrocarbon atoms, a = 2.line 6894
radiation-light-and-illumination-eq-candidate-0181Thus kerosene, which, due to its high carbon content a = 2.14,line 6896
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