Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Obituary Notice
- 1876: Note on Certain Formulæ in the Calculus of Operations. (In a letter to Prof. Tait)
- 1876: An Experiment on Electro-Magnetic Rotation
- 1887: On the Foci of Lines seen through a Crystalline Plate
- 1877: On Certain Movements of Radiometers
- 1878: On the Question of a Theoretical Limit to the Apertures of Microscopic Objectives
- 1878: On an Easy and at the same time Accurate Method of Determining the Ratio of the Dispersions of Glasses intended for Objectives
- 1879: On a Method of detecting Inequalities of unknown periods in a series of Observations. (Note appended to a paper by Prof. B. Stewart and W. Dodgson)
- 1880: Description of the Card Supporter for Sunshine Recorders adopted at the Meteorological Office
- 1881: On a Simple Mode of Eliminating Errors of Adjustment in Delicate Observations of Compared Spectra
- 1881: Discussion of the Results of some Experiments with Whirled Anemometers
- 1878: On the Determination of the Constants of the Cup Anemometer by Experiments with a Whirling Machine
- 1881: Note on the Reduction of Mr Crookes's Experiments on the Decrement of the Arc of Vibration of a Mica Plate oscillating within a Bulb containing more or less Rarefied Gas
- 1882: On the Cause of the Light Border frequently noticed in Photographs just outside the Outline of a Dark Body seen against the Sky: with some Introductory Remarks on Phosphorescence
- 1882: Extracts from Reports of the Committee on Solar Physics
- 1882: Memorandum for the use of Observers with Professor Balfour Stewart's Actinometer, prepared by Professor G. G. Stokes, Sec.R.S., and adopted by the Committee on Solar Physics
- 1883: On the Highest Wave of Uniform Propagation. (Preliminary notice)
- 1880: On the Maximum Wave of Uniform Propagation, being a Second Supplement to a Paper on the Theory of Oscillatory Waves. (Not before published)
- 1891: Note on the Theory of the Solitary Wave
- 1895: The Outskirts of the Solitary Wave
- 1885: On a remarkable Phenomenon of Crystalline Reflection
- 1886: The Coefficient of Viscosity of Air
- 1889: Note on the Determination of Arbitrary Constants which appear as Multipliers of Semi-convergent Series
- 1891: On a Graphical Representation of the Results of Dr Alder Wright's Experiments on Ternary Alloys
- 1891: On an Optical Proof of the Existence of Suspended Matter in Flames
- 1891: On the Reactions occurring in Flames
- 1891: The Influence of Surface-Loading on the Flexure of Beams
- 1892: On the best Methods of Recording the direct Intensity of Solar Radiation
- 1896: On the Nature of the Röntgen Rays
- 1897: On the Nature of the Röntgen Rays (Wilde Lecture)
- 1898: Mathematical Proof of the Identity of the Stream Lines obtained by means of a Viscous Film with those of a Perfect Fluid moving in Two Dimensions
- 1902: On the Discontinuity of Arbitrary Constants that appear as Multipliers of Semi-Convergent Series
- 1886: On the Methods of Chemical Fractionation
- 1903: The Ultra-Violet Spectrum of Radium
- APPENDIX (Mathematical Tripos and Smith's Prize questions)
- INDEX
1891: On the Reactions occurring in Flames
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Obituary Notice
- 1876: Note on Certain Formulæ in the Calculus of Operations. (In a letter to Prof. Tait)
- 1876: An Experiment on Electro-Magnetic Rotation
- 1887: On the Foci of Lines seen through a Crystalline Plate
- 1877: On Certain Movements of Radiometers
- 1878: On the Question of a Theoretical Limit to the Apertures of Microscopic Objectives
- 1878: On an Easy and at the same time Accurate Method of Determining the Ratio of the Dispersions of Glasses intended for Objectives
- 1879: On a Method of detecting Inequalities of unknown periods in a series of Observations. (Note appended to a paper by Prof. B. Stewart and W. Dodgson)
- 1880: Description of the Card Supporter for Sunshine Recorders adopted at the Meteorological Office
- 1881: On a Simple Mode of Eliminating Errors of Adjustment in Delicate Observations of Compared Spectra
- 1881: Discussion of the Results of some Experiments with Whirled Anemometers
- 1878: On the Determination of the Constants of the Cup Anemometer by Experiments with a Whirling Machine
- 1881: Note on the Reduction of Mr Crookes's Experiments on the Decrement of the Arc of Vibration of a Mica Plate oscillating within a Bulb containing more or less Rarefied Gas
- 1882: On the Cause of the Light Border frequently noticed in Photographs just outside the Outline of a Dark Body seen against the Sky: with some Introductory Remarks on Phosphorescence
- 1882: Extracts from Reports of the Committee on Solar Physics
- 1882: Memorandum for the use of Observers with Professor Balfour Stewart's Actinometer, prepared by Professor G. G. Stokes, Sec.R.S., and adopted by the Committee on Solar Physics
- 1883: On the Highest Wave of Uniform Propagation. (Preliminary notice)
- 1880: On the Maximum Wave of Uniform Propagation, being a Second Supplement to a Paper on the Theory of Oscillatory Waves. (Not before published)
- 1891: Note on the Theory of the Solitary Wave
- 1895: The Outskirts of the Solitary Wave
- 1885: On a remarkable Phenomenon of Crystalline Reflection
- 1886: The Coefficient of Viscosity of Air
- 1889: Note on the Determination of Arbitrary Constants which appear as Multipliers of Semi-convergent Series
- 1891: On a Graphical Representation of the Results of Dr Alder Wright's Experiments on Ternary Alloys
- 1891: On an Optical Proof of the Existence of Suspended Matter in Flames
- 1891: On the Reactions occurring in Flames
- 1891: The Influence of Surface-Loading on the Flexure of Beams
- 1892: On the best Methods of Recording the direct Intensity of Solar Radiation
- 1896: On the Nature of the Röntgen Rays
- 1897: On the Nature of the Röntgen Rays (Wilde Lecture)
- 1898: Mathematical Proof of the Identity of the Stream Lines obtained by means of a Viscous Film with those of a Perfect Fluid moving in Two Dimensions
- 1902: On the Discontinuity of Arbitrary Constants that appear as Multipliers of Semi-Convergent Series
- 1886: On the Methods of Chemical Fractionation
- 1903: The Ultra-Violet Spectrum of Radium
- APPENDIX (Mathematical Tripos and Smith's Prize questions)
- INDEX
Summary
“Dear Dr Armstrong,
“I enclose a little optico-chemical paper, that is to say, one in which the method is optical, but the results are of interest, such as they have, rather from a chemical point of view. I use, to express it in short terms, a flame as a screen on which to receive an image of the sun.
“The reaction mentioned in the P.S. is to be taken as a specimen of reactions of the kind, for though it probably takes place, there are doubtless others also, as there are a lot of compounds found in the interior of the flame.
“I read the other day your address to the Junior Engineering Society, in which you speak of oxygen as combining with hydrogen in preference to carbon; I should have supposed it would have been the other way. Not only does the facility with which steam is decomposed by glowing carbon favour this view, but it seems to me to fit better with the phenomena of flames. According to my notions, we must carefully distinguish between the changes which take place in the partial combustion of a molecule and those which are produced in neighbouring molecules as a result of the heat thus produced. We may, for the sake of a name, call the former pure-chemical, and the latter thermo-chemical. The action of the heated walls of a tube is of the thermo-chemical kind; it involves a regrouping of the existing molecules under the molecular agitation of a hot body, without bringing a fresh reagent (suppose oxygen) into play from outside the molecule.
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- Mathematical and Physical Papers , pp. 235 - 237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1905