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... contains the laws which regulate the distribution of heat through space , and includes radiation , conduction , convection , and the measurements of specific and latent heat . Theoretical views are here for the first time introduced ...
... contains the laws which regulate the distribution of heat through space , and includes radiation , conduction , convection , and the measurements of specific and latent heat . Theoretical views are here for the first time introduced ...
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... contain that gross form of matter which serves to convey heat by contact . We are thus taught that a hot body parts with its heat in two ways , ― ( 1 ) By contact with a cold body ; ( 2 ) By radiation through space . And we believe ...
... contain that gross form of matter which serves to convey heat by contact . We are thus taught that a hot body parts with its heat in two ways , ― ( 1 ) By contact with a cold body ; ( 2 ) By radiation through space . And we believe ...
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... contain throughout notices of some of the most important practical applications of the laws of Heat , and also of certain terrestrial and cosmical adaptations in which these laws play a very important part . It will be observed ...
... contain throughout notices of some of the most important practical applications of the laws of Heat , and also of certain terrestrial and cosmical adaptations in which these laws play a very important part . It will be observed ...
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... contains , and the open end of the tube is inserted into a basin of pure mercury . As the bulb begins to cool and the pressure of the air within it diminishes , part of this mercury will be driven up the bore into the bulb . The mercury ...
... contains , and the open end of the tube is inserted into a basin of pure mercury . As the bulb begins to cool and the pressure of the air within it diminishes , part of this mercury will be driven up the bore into the bulb . The mercury ...
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... containing vessel altered only the temperature of the water and not that of the steam . It is therefore in steam , not water , that a thermometer ought to be plunged in order to have its upper point determined . Hence also if steam ...
... containing vessel altered only the temperature of the water and not that of the steam . It is therefore in steam , not water , that a thermometer ought to be plunged in order to have its upper point determined . Hence also if steam ...
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absorbs absorption acid amount of heat antimony aqueous vapour atmosphere bismuth body boiling point Boyle's law Bromine bulb calorimeter carbon carbonic acid chemical coefficient cold colour column condensed conductivity constant temperature dark heat denote density dilatation Dulong and Petit electric enclosure energy equal ether evaporation excess of temperature expansion experiments Fahr flow of heat freezing galvanometer gases Gay Lussac glass gravity heating effect hence high temperature inches of mercury increase instrument iron lamp-black latent heat light liquid luminous means melting metals method millimètres nearly nitrous oxide observed obtained particles pass perature plate polarized pound pressure produced quantity of heat radiant heat radiation rays reflected refrangibility regard Regnault result rock salt shew shewn solid source of heat specific gravity specific heat steam substance suppose surface thermometer tourmaline tube vacuo velocity of cooling vessel volume wave length weight
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Page 304 - That the quantity of heat produced by the friction of bodies, whether solid or liquid, is always proportional to the quantity of force expended.
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Page 80 - ... passing from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous form, or the contrary, occasioning endless vicissitudes of temperature over the globe.
Page 82 - ... thermometer, this will very often be sufficient to produce solidification, if not drop in a small crystal. The mass solidifies at once and the temperature rises very considerably. 112. Laws of Fusion. We may thus sum up our results with the following laws of fusion. (1) A substance begins to melt at a temperature, which is constant for the same substance, if the pressure be constant, and is called the melting-point.