| Show red real pir fire Is I 1 invisible no eye says saya a scientific writer tins has ever seen been real fire the flame Is leaping tit in strange fantastic form 15 or 20 inches upward from the coal and acid with it a good deul dead of black sooty smoke tile the sooty smoke inoke and the flames are one and the same with only a difference of temperature the soot root which forms the flame Is in every particle pait cle icle of the name fiance Is red hot coal or a particle of the carbon the rhe real fire we do not see sec the instant that tile the carbon atoms be come really burned eaten up by the oxygen of combustion they are ble in burning 3 pounds of carbon the heated state of which gives us flame the fire work is done clone by 8 pounds of oxygen rhe fhe oxygen we do not set the carbon we only ace just before it is burned and the result of the burning Is tl it pounds of the compound of oxygen and carbon which Is ini laibl |
