File:Pictet's experiment.png

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The reflection of radiant heat demonstrated by an apparatus of two concave mirrors

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English: An etching by John Tyndall illustrating 'Pictet's Experiment' which shows the reflection of radiant heat from a source in the bottom mirror focused on a blackened balloon filled with Hydrogen and Oxygen which explodes when the source is applied.
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Source Heat considered as a mode of motion: being a course of twelve lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in the season of 1862 (1863) p. 281
Author John Tyndall
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The text 'Fig 81' is preserved deliberately

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