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Balfour Stewart. Dilatation of Gases at Various Pressures Air Thermometer a Measurer of Temperature Relation between Temperature and Pressure of Air of Constant Volume Relation between Temperature and Volume of Air of Constant Pressure ...
Balfour Stewart. Dilatation of Gases at Various Pressures Air Thermometer a Measurer of Temperature Relation between Temperature and Pressure of Air of Constant Volume Relation between Temperature and Volume of Air of Constant Pressure ...
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... Temperature on the Electrical Properties of Bodies : - 160-161 146 162 147 a . Thermo - electric Currents Thermo ... Temperature on the Electric Conductivity of Pure Metals 1 168 • 154 of Liquids • 169 155 of Bad Conductors . 170 155 ...
... Temperature on the Electrical Properties of Bodies : - 160-161 146 162 147 a . Thermo - electric Currents Thermo ... Temperature on the Electric Conductivity of Pure Metals 1 168 • 154 of Liquids • 169 155 of Bad Conductors . 170 155 ...
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... TEMPERATURE . 11. The temperature of a body may be defined to be its state with respect to sensible heat . When the amount of sensible heat in a body increases , its temperature is said to rise , and when this diminishes its temperature ...
... TEMPERATURE . 11. The temperature of a body may be defined to be its state with respect to sensible heat . When the amount of sensible heat in a body increases , its temperature is said to rise , and when this diminishes its temperature ...
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... temperature than the mercury ; and if , on the other hand , the water receives heat from the mercury , then it is said to be of a lower temperature than the mercury . 13. It will be inferred from what we have said that if two bodies of ...
... temperature than the mercury ; and if , on the other hand , the water receives heat from the mercury , then it is said to be of a lower temperature than the mercury . 13. It will be inferred from what we have said that if two bodies of ...
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... temperature . This last requirement is the most difficult one , for it implies not only a knowledge of the agent Heat , but also of the changes which it produces upon bodies , since we must evidently make use of some one of these ...
... temperature . This last requirement is the most difficult one , for it implies not only a knowledge of the agent Heat , but also of the changes which it produces upon bodies , since we must evidently make use of some one of these ...
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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 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.