The Laws of Gases: MemoirsHarper, 1899 - 107 pages |
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130 atmospheres abscissa Annales de Chimie apparatus atomic volume barrel carbon dioxide centimetres coefficient of expansion column compressibility computed CONSTANT VOLUME covolume critical point critical pressure curve of liquefaction cylinder deduced different temperatures dilatation dioxide and ethylene discrepancy division mark ether experiments following table gaseous given glass HIGH PRESSURES higher temperatures Hirn hydrogen inches internal pressure isotherms large piston law of Mariotte LAWS OF GASES limits of pressure liquid lower end Mariotte's law marsh gas maximum vapor tension memoir meniscus mercury meters Method of Sights millimetres minimum ordinates molecules NITROGEN AIR nitrogen manometer observed obtained ordinary temperatures OXYGEN perature Physique piezometer pression pressure coefficient pressure corresponding products pv PV VX quicksilver reached region relative researches ROBERT BOYLE screwed shows small piston steel stem stopcock straight lines stuffing-box theory thermal throughout tion trough tube unit of volume values of pv variation zero
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Page 4 - This done, we began to pour quicksilver into the longer leg of the syphon, which, by its weight pressing up that in the shorter leg, did by degrees straighten the included air ; and continuing this pouring in of quicksilver till the air in the shorter leg was by condensation reduced to take up but half the space it possessed (I say possessed, not filled) before, we cast our eyes upon the longer leg of the glass...
Page 4 - ... the included air ; and continuing this pouring in of quicksilver till the air in the shorter leg was by condensation reduced to take up but half the space it possessed (I say possessed, not filled) before ; we cast our eyes upon the longer leg of the glass, on which was likewise pasted a list of paper carefully divided into inches and parts, and we observed, not without delight and satisfaction, that the quicksilver in that longer part of the tube was 29 inches higher than the other.
Page 4 - Atmosphere had brought it, was able to counterbalance and resist the pressure of a Mercurial Cylinder of about 29. Inches, as we are taught by the Torricellian Experiment ; so here the same Air being brought to a degree of density about twice as great as that it had before, obtains a Spring twice as strong as formerly. As may appear by its being able to sustain or resist a Cylinder of 29. Inches in the longer Tube, together with the weight of the Atmospherical Cylinder, that lean'd upon those 29....
Page 5 - ... so long, that the cylinder, whereof the shorter leg of it consisted, admitted a list of paper, which had before been divided into 12 inches and their quarters, and the longer leg admitted another list of paper of divers feet in length, and divided after the same manner. Then quicksilver being poured in to fill up the bended part of the glass, that the surface of it in either leg might rest in the same horizontal line, as we lately taught, there was more and more quicksilver poured into the longer...
Page 5 - The number of equal spaces in the shorter leg, that contained the same parcel of air diversely extended. B. The height of the mercurial cylinder in the longer leg, that compressed the air into those dimensions. C. The height of the mercurial cylinder that counterbalanced the pressure of the atmosphere. D. The aggregate of the two last columns, B and C, exhibiting the pressure sustained by the included air. E. What that pressure should be according to the hypothesis, that supposes the pressures and...
Page 6 - We then tried likewise, whether heat would, notwithstanding so forcible a compressure, dilate it; and approaching the flame of a candle to that part where the air was pent up, the heat had a more sensible operation than the cold had before; so that we scarce doubted, but that the expansion of the air would, notwithstanding the weight that opprest it, have been made conspicuous, if the fear of unseasonably breaking the glass had not kept us from increasing the heat.