Download or read book Chemical Technology, Or Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 1 written by Edmund Ronalds and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chemical Technology, or Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 1: Part II. Fuel and Its Application General principles - The production of artificial light depends upon the well-known and easily-observed fact, that the action of high degrees of heat upon bodies which are not volatile, always renders them luminous, the requisite heat being produced either by the chemical process of combustion, or more rarely by the passage of the electric current. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.