Re: [Phys-L] The Chemical History of a Candle

[bernard cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

> On 2016/Dec/24, at 16:36, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com <mailto:jsd@av8n.com>> wrote:
>
> Appropriate to the season:
>       The Chemical History of a Candle
> lovingly retold by Bill Hammack, with Don DeCoste and Alex Black.
>
> Five lectures, each about 15 minutes long, each available with and
> without a voice-over commentary.


Yes!  reported in the Wiki on  Faraday.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_History_of_a_Candle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_History_of_a_Candle>  

If I’d read my copy of Faraday’s lectures, [1] I’da possibly caught what DM’s demo. shows.    


"Just think, if Michael Faraday had received a decent education, he
might have amounted to something." 


Are you suggesting a std. English ed. woulda ruined him, or he’da predated J.C. Max.?  

bc read (closed captioned) the first lecture, and didn’t find why the wick is woven, so it burns.    


[1] On the floor next to the bed waiting.   Reading "The Lady Tasting Tea”   A fascinating history, and now I know what Cosset did for my favo. Stout.  (Culture shock [1966]: Guinness on tap at the Keele student union (Bottled Joule’s Ale at the Keele Research Association), and age of consent 16.)