Lecture Five: The Chemical History of a Candle - Respiration & the Burning of a Candle (6/6)

Bill Hammack presents Lecture Five of Michael Faraday’s lectures on The Chemical History of a Candle. A free companion book helps modern viewers understand each lecture - details at www.engineerguy.com - as does a commentary track and closed captions for each lecture.
►Free Companion book to this video series
www.engineerguy.com/faraday
Text of Every Lecture | Essential Background | Guides to Every Lecture| Teaching Guide & Student Activities
In these lectures Michael Faraday’s careful examination of a burning candle reveals the fundamental concepts of chemistry, while at the same time superbly demonstrating the scientific method. In this lecture Faraday continues his investigation of the properties of carbon dioxide and then draws an analogy between the burning of a candle and mammalian respiration.
LINKS TO OTHER VIDEOS IN THIS SERIES
► Lectures
(1/6) Introduction to Michael Faraday’s Chemical History of a Candle
• Introduction: The Chem...
(2/6) Lecture One: A Candle: Sources of its Flame
• Lecture One: The Chemi...
(3/6) Lecture Two: Brightness of the Flame
• Lecture Two: The Chemi...
(4/6) Lecture Three: Products of Combustion
• Lecture Three: The Che...
(5/6) Lecture Four: The Nature of the Atmosphere
• Lecture Four: The Chem...
(6/6) Lecture Five: Respiration & its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle
• Lecture Five: The Chem...
► Bonus Videos: Lectures with Commentary
Lecture One: A Candle: Sources of its Flame (Commentary version)
• Commentary Lecture One...
Lecture Two: Brightness of the Flame (Commentary version)
• Commentary Lecture Two...
Lecture Three: Products of Combustion (Commentary version)
• Commentary Lecture Thr...
Lecture Four: The Nature of the Atmosphere (Commentary version)
• Commentary Lecture Fou...
Lecture Five: Respiration & its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle (Commentary version)
• Commentary Lecture Fiv...
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COMPANION BOOK DETAILS
The companion book is available as an ebook, in paperback and hardcover - and for free as a PDF. Details on all versions are at www.engineerguy.com/faraday
Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle
with Guides to the Lectures, Teaching Guides & Student Activities
Bill Hammack & Don DeCoste
190 pages | 5 x 8 | 14 illustrations
Hardcover (Casebound) | ISBN 978-0-9838661-8-0 | $24.95
Paper| ISBN 978-1-945441-00-4| $11.99
eBook | ISBN 978-0-9839661-9-7 | $3.99
Audience: 01 - General Trade
Subjects
SCI013000 SCIENCE / Chemistry / General
SCI028000 SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects
SCI000000 SCIENCE / General
EDU029030 EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Science & Technology
This book introduces modern readers to Michael Faraday’s great nineteenth-century lectures on The Chemical History of a Candle. This companion to the KZbin series contains supplemental material to help readers appreciate Faraday’s key insight that “there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of science than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.” Through a careful examination of a burning candle, Faraday’s lectures introduce readers to the concepts of mass, density, heat conduction, capillary action, and convection currents. They demonstrate the difference between chemical and physical processes, such as melting, vaporization, incandescence, and all types of combustion. And the lectures reveal the properties of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide, including their relative masses and the makeup of the atmosphere. The lectures wrap up with a grand, and startling, analogy: by understanding the chemical behavior of a candle the reader can grasp the basics of respiration. To help readers understand Faraday’s key points this book has an “Essential Background” section that explains in modern terms how a candle works, introductory guides for each lecture written in contemporary language, and seven student activities with teaching guides.
Author Bios
Bill Hammack is a Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois-Urbana, where he focuses on educating the public about engineering and science. He is the creator and host of the popular KZbin channel engineerguyvideo.
Don DeCoste is a Specialist in Education in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois-Urbana, where he teaches freshmen and pre-service high school chemistry teachers. He is the co-author of four chemistry textbooks.

[@beansprouts113]

Brilliant series with some great demonstrations! I love how you kept to original language used too. Thanks for sharing

[@engineerguyvideo]

That is all due to Michael Faraday of course ...

[@beansprouts113]

Of course, I'm sure everyone appreciates the effort you guys put in too though

[@rushianokun]

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[@redbarond1]

You should look into the companion book too. I bought the hardcover because it was so good.

[@atmazee]

Amazing that a lecture from the better part of 200 years ago is still as informative and interesting as this. Thanks for creating this content.

[@carlospitcher4335]

I have gone through all of the lectures, they are clear, interesting and full of the right amount of detail that makes people want more. I can see all the effort and hard work in action here. Congratulations to your team and yourself. Thank you so very much for sharing them, the quality is astonishing.

[@tbp4cfym]

Thank you for making this series and the commentaries. I am your average Joe when it comes to science, but know enough to normally understand things by the context. I learned that 1- The wax in a candle is the fuel. I always thought the wax was there to keep the wick from burning too fast. 2-What i knew as suction is actually "air" pushing down, not the suction "pulling" down. 3- that the combustion from the respiration process is what keeps us warm. I learned a lot from these and enjoyed them immensely, these are just a few things that completely changed the way I viewed them.

[@snowpdx]

That conclusion reminded me of another pair of luminaries, who once said "be excellent to each other"

[@605nkr]

Rock on dude.

[@aaroneusmaximus]

I really have to say, this was so well done and it absolutely captured my imagination. I literally dropped everything and watched these several times. I would pay good money for lectures of this caliber. I wish my college courses were like this. Please keep up the good work. The world is a better place with you guys in it. I hope you come out with something in print so I can get your autograph!

[@wndmier90]

that was beautiful, excuse me if a commit mistakes writing this (because i don't speak english), but these videos that shows that level of love for science and the functioning of the world is what makes life better, these are the feelings that makes me feel grateful about been alive and astonished with the universe.

[@HenningStrandin]

This is a work of art, both in the original and the reproduction. Thanks! (Also explains why scientists used to be rock stars. This is a magic show and a poetry reading and a scientific lecture.)

[@notanimposter]

Michael Faraday had a silver tongue! This series has been so beautiful to listen to.

[@lulzjeffy1337]

This series was an absolute joy to watch, and was narrated beautifully. Thank you so much for your time and effort, and for showing us the beauty that is in the science of all the things that surround us. Cheers!

[@chris_1337]

That was beautiful, from start to finish! Thanks for not changing the language.. it's so poetic.

[@theneroliveira]

What a privilege to hear the great teachings of the genius that was Michael Faraday! Such great care in production and in not only preserve the contents of the book but such vivid experiments! Thank you very much for this series and hopefully teachers everywhere will use it to inspire kids to science!

[@yawnfarm_4664]

Thank you, I am very grateful to have seen this series, all I can say is how inspiring it has been for me and makes me want to do more to educate myself.

[@bradduke]

Absolutely riveted. I can't thank you enough for recreating and uploading these lectures.

[@EldeTabernas]

Amazing series. Can't wait to see more projects like this!

[@xtranormal2350]

It's amazing how experiments like these were what was used to construct the models for atoms and chemistry.

[@narnbrez]

It was very interesting hearing him describe (in language older than ours) the concept of "elements" in a previous video while not explicitly getting atomic. They really were groping in the dark compared to us!

[@ihrbekommtmeinenrichtigennamen]

Wow. Mind = Blown. I would have never guessed that all of this stuff is going on simply by lighting a candle.

[@epock7]

Thank you so much for the time and effort placed into this series and this channel. A wonderfully faithful recreation of Faraday's lectures. I hope that your efforts may be used to inspire the generations to follow. May we all follow your footsteps to share the knowledge we have with those around us.

[@BillySugger1965]

Bill, that lecture series was absolutely delightful! Thank you.

[@dreyfusslugado]

What a beautiful series of lectures! Thank you Bill! And thanks to your team, too.

[@brianpso]

This was so inspiring. I think I'll never look at a candle the same way for the rest of my life. I cannot thank all of you who made this incredible series enough, these words sounded like poetry and the demonstrations were so well crafted, insane.

[@BenOliver999]

Bill, what a wonderful series of videos bringing Faraday's work to a new audience. What a time to be alive, that I can watch this from my couch!

[@kevinbyrne4538]

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to prepare this series of videos. I'd long intended to read Faraday's book, but now I've heard it read -- with demonstrations. Again, you have my sincere thanks.

[@ZeedijkMike]

This has indeed been a very enjoyable serie. Very well made and informative. Thanks so much.

[@justinrbland]

Phenomenal series! Wow! I absolutely loved this series. Thank you for your passion and attention to detail. Simply incredible.

[@piratapan]

@10:55 Bill Hammock hittin' it!

[@Kabitu1]

Smoke lime erryday!

[@geico-lz9ip]

Using a bong in the name of science.

[@EamonBurke]

Imagine walking in on this dude doing this with the smell of smoke and lighters and ash laying about. It'd give one pause.

[@lulzjeffy1337]

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[@AidanHockey34]

This was amazing! Excellent work on the demonstrations and presentation, Bill. Hats off to your co-producers Alex, Don, and team as well. I would absolutly love to see you and your team tackle more of Faraday's lectures, particularly the ones involving electricity! I also really enojyed watching you exhibit some chemistry demonstrations as well. I think it would be really great to continue with some more chemistry-centered EngineerGuy videos complete with your unique presentation style and practical demonstrations.

[@steventhehistorian]

What a profound series. Thank you Engineerguy for doing good for mankind and freely sharing Faraday's lesson with the world.

[@jjohnson137]

What a great series. What an example of how the Internet can function as a transmitter of knowledge. Keep up to excellent work.

[@danilomartingonzalez6117]

That was beautiful. I loved the decision to maintain Faraday's poetic language, it adds the emotion of verse to the logic of science. Excellent work on this series! 👏👏👏

[@christhecurler]

Thank you for all your hard work recreating these lectures!

[@davidi.levine6253]

Faraday was a genius at teaching as well as science. You use of video improved his fantastic work by cutting out all the boring parts. Amazingly successful.

[@robertthallium6883]

This and 3Blue1Brown are the most enlightening producers on KZbin. Thank you, Bill for every effort you put into your productions.

[@Glasgo]

fantastic series! I enjoyed being able to watch it all at once rather than over the course of a few days or weeks.

[@tamilplaychannel]

THANK YOU Bill Hammack & Others ! A candle will lighten up your knowledge !!

[@velikiradojica]

Thank you very much for adapting these lectures and providing them to us in a video format. These were very educational, even though we learn about it all the way from elementary school in the 21st century.

[@davemiddleton2052]

So beautiful. Thank you so much for this priceless recreation.

[@Tonicwine999]

Wow that series was amazing. Loved the depth you went into and also the many experiments. Fantastic :)

[@wizardOfRobots]

Mr. Engineerguy, I'm sure your own lecture series will go down in history to be at least as famous as Mr. Faraday's. Hearfelt Thanks for taking the time and effort!

[@snaprollinpitts]

thanks Bill, for this wonderful series. I wish I could've had you as one of my Professors in college.

[@narnbrez]

Thank you so much for all of your videos Bill!

[@JhormanGMore]

This was amazing! You are an inspiration as an educator and your team should lead major TV shows. Thank you for doing this!

[@heimbad]

Beautiful series, extremely well presented, great idea! Thank you very much.

[@gwgtaylor]

Love it. Thank you for putting this together.

[@danielavargas3091]

Brilliant! Your five lectures saved my semester, thank you so much

[@mikeissweet]

Epic. Faraday sits high in my top five list of experimenters. His ability to intuit physical phenomena was astounding

[@TheJaredtheJaredlong]

Really great video series. Thank you so much for making these.

[@c182SkylaneRG]

Here I thought I knew a lot about Chemistry, and yet I learned quite a lot from this series!! Thank you, very much! :)

[@berendbeumer9204]

Awsome series! The quality of your videos is among the best on youtube! Thanx :)

[@1TrTlq]

Just finished this series of lectures. brilliant, all this just from a candle.

[@ShanerTheGrey]

Thank you for making this series everyone of these videos were great.

[@pianoman178]

This was great, educational, and entertaining. I will be recommending this to everyone I know. Thank you.

[@feelingzhakkaas]

Excellent and very effective video series and demonstrations. Thanks for such great work.

[@PointyShinyBurning]

These have been superb, thanks so much for doing them!

[@redbarond1]

The ending statement is one of the most inspirational things I have ever heard.

[@AMalas]

I really liked that its all at once, it helps to ensure that I dont forget stuff between lectures! here is a wonderful suggestion though: why not post them all at once, but have only the first listed. you can then tell views to click the link to go to the rest of the videos or to wait for you to list it later! that would make everyone happy.

[@WestSideRida420]

This is an awesome series. Thank you Bill!

[@LeonardBottleman]

A magnificent series beautifully produced.

[@DanSpotYT]

Excellent work and much enjoyed the series. Thank you!

[@YBuda101]

Great series. Love the commentary combo!

[@KOWspazed]

Fantastic! Beautifully captured for video.

[@tomcerulwork]

Well presented! Thank you for bringing this work to life.

[@anthonychampagne6239]

I had to read the book for school but this is all look much better!

[@donwald3436]

Thanks Bill. This is a great explanation of why science is not just another system of faith.

[@markbell9742]

Thanks again. Beautifully done. Cheers, Mark ***************

[@fogelmclovin6815]

Thank you for the series and companion book!

[@EconaelGaming]

Thank you for preserving this fantastic lecture!

[@top2percent]

Wonderful! Thank you for your labour of love

[@gman012341]

This is a great series and i would think a good idea for future videos

[@Ghilliedude3]

Fantastic series!

[@gumble223]

Amazing work. Great job. Thank you.

[@AustinHarsh]

This was a great series! Thank you so much! :)

[@squanchy474]

How does this video only have ~500 likes, this is great! Why didn't they teach chemistry like this in school ?

[@SudipBhattacharyya]

Thanks a lot. I am enlightened.

[@ChristopherMonaco3]

These were wonderful! Thank you!

[@nikhilkhedkar277]

Very nice lecture series. It's worth seeing

[@StereoSpace]

Loved this so much. Thank you.

[@emcgon]

Coming late to this series, but it is beautiful and magnificent: poetry and science together.

[@engineerguyvideo]

Late! It is evergreen, designed to on the internet forever ...

[@syntheticelementvids]

Thank you for these videos.

[@Ahmedhkad]

Thanks , all lectures is amazing and helpful

[@ilyichelias]

An inspiring presentation.

[@geoffgeoff143]

Fascinating series. Easy to see why we have chosen such an interesting item to help celebrate the anniversary of our birth date.

[@aargrin]

well thank you for that lecture. I have learned a lot.

[@moristar]

It's so amazing. And I personally have no issues following lectures, although English is not my mother tongue.Indeed. thank you very much, sir! ;-)

[@djolley61]

Wow, I loved the comparison to us to candle.

[@jorgenieto2972]

Great lesson thanks

[@xnamkcor]

Time to break out YAMB and make some videos to watch on my commute. PS: Any plans for a video disc release? Like a bundle with the book?

[@biostemm]

Fantastic series! You now need to do it in costume, and on an appropriate-era set. You are very soothing to listen to as well.

[@craigwatkins7011]

Superb!

[@justpassnthru]

Wow. Just wow!

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

Bravo! Dephlogistigated aire shant, not even with modicum of time, be taken as granted.

[@ElectricityTaster]

Seems like a lot of attention to detail went into creating all this, even the fonts used for the PDF. Really well done. The only thing I can think about that is not ideal is that this series is not in 4K. Higher resolution would make them more appealing down the road when 1080p starts to seem like 360p, although it might make editing and uploading a pain. But heck, you probably thought about all that already.

[@engineerguyvideo]

+agun17 yeah we shot this on our first equipment: these are in HDV! Not broadcast quality, but that was the best we could do when we shot these -- prosumer cameras recording to digital tape. Now we have nicer equipment.

[@joebspixel5a941]

I love it!🎉❤

[@Minzkraut]

Whats the name of the song playing in the outro? I've been looking into the description several times but im sure its not in there.

[@hereBDBD]

Bravo!!!

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I love it 😍

[@jerrydriscoll8636]

I developed and published the burning of magnesium in dry ice. J. A. Driscoll, “Ultraviolet Absorption of Ozone,” J. Chem. Ed., 54, 675 (1977).

[@eqlzr2]

I wonder if reducing the speed of information delivery results in greater retention of the information, and thus the benefit that the information can be put to?

[@cgarzs]

Amazing series, very well done. However I keep hearing "Let us consider shitter, which will serve my purpose" at 13:07 lol. Thanks for making this series. It was a joy to watch :-)

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thanks