Priestley, Scheele, Lavoisier, and the Burning Lenses

The purpose of this article was to familiarize readers with burning lenses, which were used by 18th century by some English and French chemists as a means of reaching high temperatures. However, not all experiments have given satisfactory results. The failures in the melting platinum using various b...

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Main Author: Aleksander Sztejnberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas 2019-12-01
Series:Revista CENIC Ciencias Químicas
Online Access:https://revista.cnic.cu/index.php/RevQuim/article/view/302