Wells's principles and applications of chemistry; . that the immediate products of the com-bustion are vaporous or gaseous, and are notrendered luminous by heating. (See Combustion.)Antimony and many other metals finely pow-dered, and projected into a vessel of chlorine, takefire and produce a brilliant combustion. Thinsheets of copper leaf, attached to a copper wire,and dipped into chlorine, exhibit the same phe-nomenon. 353. The intense affinity which chlorine mani-fests for hydrogen is one of the most remarkablecharacteristics of this element, and is the property, above all others, whichgiv
Wells's principles and applications of chemistry; . that the immediate products of the com-bustion are vaporous or gaseous, and are notrendered luminous by heating. (See Combustion.)Antimony and many other metals finely pow-dered, and projected into a vessel of chlorine, takefire and produce a brilliant combustion. Thinsheets of copper leaf, attached to a copper wire,and dipped into chlorine, exhibit the same phe-nomenon. 353. The intense affinity which chlorine mani-fests for hydrogen is one of the most remarkablecharacteristics of this element, and is the property, above all others, whichgives to chlorine its great value as an industrial agent. This affinity is, how-ever, regulated, or rather called forth, by a most singular action of , when chlorine and hydrogen, in the gaseous condition, are mixed to-gether in equal volumes, they will remain for an indefinite period withoutaction upon each other, if kept in the dark. If the mixture be exposed todiffused daylight, combination will take place gradually ; but if the two gases.
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