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... results as nearly as may be identical with one another if all our instruments are read on the same principle ; while , on the other hand , the indications of two thermometers filled with different liquids , and both graduated on the ...
... results as nearly as may be identical with one another if all our instruments are read on the same principle ; while , on the other hand , the indications of two thermometers filled with different liquids , and both graduated on the ...
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... Results . 295 269 Variation with Temperature of Specific Heat of Liquids 296 270 Specific Heat of Water at various Temperatures Specific Heat of Gases : - Division of the Subject . - Regnault's Experiments Results of Regnault's ...
... Results . 295 269 Variation with Temperature of Specific Heat of Liquids 296 270 Specific Heat of Water at various Temperatures Specific Heat of Gases : - Division of the Subject . - Regnault's Experiments Results of Regnault's ...
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... result of experience , that we shall also have the water in equilibrium of temperature with the oil . In fine , if a series of bodies be in equilibrium of temperature with each other in any one order they will be so in any other order ...
... result of experience , that we shall also have the water in equilibrium of temperature with the oil . In fine , if a series of bodies be in equilibrium of temperature with each other in any one order they will be so in any other order ...
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... result will be that the thermometer will denote with sufficient accuracy the temperature of the liquid - only it is necessary that this instrument be very small . But if the temperature of the liquid be kept constantly recruited by some ...
... result will be that the thermometer will denote with sufficient accuracy the temperature of the liquid - only it is necessary that this instrument be very small . But if the temperature of the liquid be kept constantly recruited by some ...
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... result , and this will be after- wards described . Breguet's metallic thermometer is another instrument which may be used in measuring temperature , but a de- scription of it must be deferred to a future occasion . " CHAPTER II ...
... result , and this will be after- wards described . Breguet's metallic thermometer is another instrument which may be used in measuring temperature , but a de- scription of it must be deferred to a future occasion . " CHAPTER II ...
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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.