Benzene Benzene names Benzene lamp Cooking with gas Commentary

Michael Faraday chemistry

Benzene

• The Portable Gas Company found that compressing
• a thousand cubic feet of illuminating gas into bottles
• produced a gallon of mysterious liquid that could be drawn off
• by opening valves on the bottom of the bottles.
• Michael Faraday separated this liquid into parts
• using repeated fractional distillation and condensation,
• which eventually produced “bi-carburet of hydrogen”
• that crystalized on cooling into brittle branchlike structures
• evaporated when exposed to air, and burned with a white flame.
• By additional tests and measurements, Michael Faraday
• determined its composition by weight to be 1 part hydrogen
• to 12 parts carbon. Modern atomic weights give a ratio of 1 to 11.92.

Benzene names

• This chemical has many names,
• even restricting our list
• to English and the language of chemistry.
• Benzene has been known as
• C₆H₆
• Cyclohexatriene
• Cyclohexa-1,3,5-triene
• 1,3,5-Cyclohexatriene
• and [6]Annulene
• Benzol
• Benzole
• Benzolene
• Motor benzol
• Benzol 90
• BNZ
• and RNG
• Benzolum
• Benzinum
• Benzine
• Benzin
• Benzeen
• and Benzolo
• Bi-carburet of hydrogen
• Phenyl hydride
• Carbon oil
• Coal naphtha
• and Mineral naphtha
• Phene
• Pyrobenzol
• Pyrobenzole
• Fenzen
• and Polystream.

Benzene lamp

• Michael Faraday wanted to produce a lamp
• containing a liquid under low pressure
• and a combustible vapor at less pressure
• to produce a constant light for a length of time
• and he did, although it was only a “curiosity”
• because processes for easily producing benzene
• in sufficient quantities had not been invented.

Cooking with gas

• Now we’re cooking,
• all jazzed up,
• hot to trot,
• bursting with joy,
• and ready to blast off.
• We’re mixing it up.
• No moss will grow
• where we burn rubber.