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The candle: where the oxygen comes from

Author: Michael Faraday Year: 1861 Length: 253 characters Difficulty: easy Public domain

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I had better, perhaps, tell you now how we get this oxygen abundantly, having shewn you how we can separate it from the water. Oxygen, as you will immediately imagine, exists in the atmosphere; for how should the candle burn to produce water without it?

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By this point in the lectures Faraday has separated the water made by the candle into hydrogen and oxygen. Here he turns to the air, the source of the oxygen that keeps the flame going. He had just split water with a battery in front of the class. His own work on electricity in the 1830s stands behind that demonstration.

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By this point in the lectures Faraday has separated the water made by the candle into hydrogen and oxygen. Here he turns to the air, the source of the oxygen that keeps the flame going. He had just split water with a battery in front of the class. His own work on electricity in the 1830s stands behind that demonstration.

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A short passage that ends in a question, useful for practising the question mark after a long stretch of letters.

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