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Dive into The Chemical History of a Candle, a captivating series of six lectures delivered by the renowned chemist and physicist Michael Faraday to a youthful audience in 1848. This series, celebrated as one of the most iconic Christmas Lectures of the Royal Society, begins with the simple act of burning a candle and unfolds into an exploration of combustion and its byproducts. Faraday skillfully connects the fundamentals of water and air—oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon—to the intricate processes of respiration within the human body. The final lecture, On Platinum, reveals a ...

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