The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge.

  • Ridge, J. J. (John James), 1847-1908
Date:
1879
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Credit: The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ment we say that that element is oxidized * So when Carbon is oxidized it forms Carbonic Acid; when Hydrogen is oxidized it forms Water. [A substance which contains two or more elements combined together is called a compound, as water, tallow, &c.] When tallow is oxidized both Carbonic Acid and Water are formed, because the tallow contains both Car- bon and Hydrogen. When a candle is burning and the Oxygen is rapidly combining with the Carbon and Hydrogen, as we have seen, we say that oxidation is going on rapidly. Whenever two elements, such as Oxygen and Carbon, or Oxygen and Hydrogen, com- bine or join together to form something else, heat is always produced. That is why the flame of the candle is hot. So remember that oxidation alivays produces licat. But though oxidation always produces heat it does not always produce light, that is, a flame, or fire. The amount of heat produced depends upon the rate at which the oxidation is going