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IN answer to Mr. Watson's inquiry contained in your last number, I may state that at the meeting of the British Association at Exeter, in 1869, I read a paper under the above title (See Phil. Mag. for September, 1869), in which some comparative experiments were made on candles burning in full sun-shine and also in a darkened, closet. This mode of experiment was adopted because it allowed the results to be tested by weighing. Candles of the same make were used and hard sperm candles preferred as being less affected by variations of temperature than composite. The candles were allowed to burn during four hours. I give one result:—
In the dark (temp. 81° F.) each candle lost 544 grains, or 136 grains per hour.
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TOMLINSON, C. On the Supposed Action of Light on Combustion. Nature 16, 361 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016361c0
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