 Ib. of icecold water to boil) could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity of metallic dust ? and this merely in consequence of a change of its capacity for Heat...  Heat for Advanced Students - Page 271by Edwin Edser - 1899 - 470 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1798 - 618 pages
...of course, would have been capable of melting 6 { Ibs. of ice, or of causing near jib. of ice-cold water to boil) could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity of metallic'dust ? And this merely in consequence of a change of its capacity for heat ! As the weight... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1800 - 898 pages
...thermomett r, and which, of courfe, would have been capable of melting 6 j . Ibs. of ice, or of caufirg near 5 Ibs. of ice* cold water to boil) could have been furniflied by (a inconliJerable a quantity of metallic dull ? And this merely in confe* quence of a... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...of course, would have been capable of melting 6J Ibs. of ice, or of causing near 5 Ibs. of ice-cold water to boil,) could have been furnished by so inconsiderable...dust ? and this merely in consequence of a change of its capa.ci.ty for heat ? . . . Experiment 2. — The result of this beautiful experiment was very... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1861 - 460 pages
...course, would have been capable of melting 6J pounds of ice, or of cansing near 5 pounds of ieed-cold water to boil) could have been furnished by so inconsiderable...dust — and this merely in consequence of a change of its capacity for heat? As the weight of this dust (837 grains troy) amounted to no more than l-948th... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - Charities - 1870 - 608 pages
...of course, would have been capable of melting 6£ lb. of ice, or of causing near 5 lb. of ice-cold water to boil) could have been furnished by so inconsiderable...dust ? and this merely in consequence of a change of its capacity for Heat ? As the weight of this dust (837 grains, Troy) amounted to no more than .g^th... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - Nutrition - 1871 - 750 pages
...have been capable of melting six and a half pounds of ice, or of causing near five pounds of ice-cold water to boil) could have been furnished by so inconsiderable...metallic dust, and this merely in consequence of a change of its capacity for Heat ? " The weight of the metallic dust was no more than -$\^ part of that of... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 804 pages
...been capable of melting six pounds and a half of ice, or of causing nearly five pounds of ice-cold water to boil) could have been furnished by so inconsiderable...metallic dust, and this merely in consequence of a change of its capacity for heat ? " As the weight of this dust (837 grains, Troy) amounted to no more than... | |
 | Ernest Howard Griffiths - Heat, Mechanical equivalent of - 1901 - 158 pages
...Is it possible," he writes, " that such a quantity of heat as would have caused 5 Ibs. of ice-cold water to boil could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity of metallic dust merely in consequence of a change in its capacity for heat1?" The Calorists, however, were not convinced.... | |
 | Ernest Howard Griffiths - Heat, Mechanical equivalent of - 1901 - 152 pages
...Is it possible," he writes, " that such a quantity of heat as would have caused 5 Ibs. of ice-cold water to boil could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity of metallic dust merely in consequence of a change in its capacity for heat1?" The Calorists, however, were not convinced.... | |
 | Edward William Edmunds, John Bright Hoblyn - Chemistry - 1911 - 298 pages
...ice-cold water up to the boilingpoint. " Is it possible," he asked, " that such a quantity of heat . . . could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity of metallic dust merely in consequence of a change in its capacity for heat ? " The believers in caloric would have... | |
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