High-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke

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Chemistry: weighing apparatus (top), evacuated [?] glass bulb for combustion with sunlight (below). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.

A man in the foreground conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic; in the background a female figure representing the world looks at a chemist, who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle; representing the historical transition from alchemy to chemistry. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.

Chemistry: a piece of steel wire burning in oxygen inside a glass jar. Mezzotint, 1809.

A man conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic, in the foreground, in the background a female figure representing the world observes a man of the new school of chemistry who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle: a representation of the historical transition between alchemy and chemistry. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.

Memoir on heat / read to the Royal Academy of Sciences, 28 June 1783, by Messrs. Lavoisier & De La Place ; translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Guerlac.

Specification of William Brunton : fire grates, &c.

Tentamen physicum inaugurale, quaedam de lucis atque caloris, per combustionem vigentium, origine, complectens ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes T. Baumgartner.

Some early work on combustion, respiration and calcination / by Douglas McKie.

Some new experiments, with observations upon heat, clearly shewing the erroneous principles of the French theory : also, a letter to Henry Cavendish, containing some pointed animadversions; with strictures upon some late chemical papers in the Philosophical Transactions, and other remarks / by Robert Harrington.

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Memoir on heat / read to the Royal Academy of Sciences, 28 June 1783, by Messrs. Lavoisier & De La Place ; translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Guerlac.

Specification of William Brunton : fire grates, &c.

Tentamen physicum inaugurale, quaedam de lucis atque caloris, per combustionem vigentium, origine, complectens ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes T. Baumgartner.

Some early work on combustion, respiration and calcination / by Douglas McKie.