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The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday

The Chemical History of a Candle is a series of 6 lectures on chemistry presented to a juvenile audience in 1848. Taught by Michael Faraday - a chemist and physist, and regarded as the best experimentalist in the history of science - it is probably the most famous of the Christmas Lectures of the Royal Society. Taking the everyday burning of a candle as a starting point, Faraday spans the arc from combustion and its products, via the components of water and air (oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon),

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03:30
0 Preface
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36:35
1 Lecture I
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32:15
2 Lecture II
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38:42
3 Lecture III
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34:37
4 Lecture IV
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39:32
5 Lecture V
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41:32
6 Lecture VI
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45:26
7 Lecture on Platinum
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