| William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 666 pages
...lost by the one portion is gained by the other. Upon this principle, thermometers are constructed. A common thermometer consists of a tube terminated...similarly expanded, indicates the same degree of heat. 63. In dividing the scale of a thermometer, the two fixed points usually resorted toare the freezingandboilingofwater,w... | |
| William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 806 pages
...lost by the one portion is gained by the other. Upon this principle, thermometers are constructed. A common thermometer consists of a tube terminated...the other. The bulb and part of the tube are filled v, itli a proper liquid, generally mercury, and a scale is applied, graduated into equal parts. Whenever... | |
| 1824 - 884 pages
...much as the hot portion contracts, and the remeters are constructed. A common thermometer Chemistry. consists of a tube terminated at one end by a bulb,...and a scale is applied, graduated into equal parts. Wherever this instrument is applied to bodies of the same temperature, the mercury, being similarly... | |
| 1826 - 652 pages
...lost by the one portion is gained by the other. Upon this principle, thermometers are constructed. A common thermometer consists of a tube terminated...at one end by a bulb, and closed at the other. The bait and part of the tube are filled with a proper liquid, generally mercury, and a scale is applied,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 pages
...would be to suppose that the thermometer was really invented by different persons about the same time. A common thermometer consists of a tube terminated at one end by a bulb, and closed at the other. 1 he bulb and part of the tube are filled with a proper liquid, generally mercury, and a scale is applied,... | |
| John White Webster - 1839 - 618 pages
...; so that it appears, that as much heat as is lost by the one portion is gained by the other. 160. A common thermometer consists of a tube terminated at one end by a bulb, and hermetically closed at the other. The bulb and part of the tube are filled with an appropriate liquid,... | |
| John White Webster - 1839 - 592 pages
...160. A common thermometer consists of a tube terminated at one eter- end by a bulb, and hermetically closed at the other. The bulb and part of the tube are filled with an appropriate liquid, which when designed to measure very low temperatures, is spirit of wine ; under... | |
| Negretti and Zambra, Enrico Angelo Lodovico Negretti, Joseph Warren Zambra - 1864 - 180 pages
...thermometer consists of a glass tube of very fine bore, having a bulb of thin glass at one extremity, and closed at the other. The bulb and part of the tube contains mercury ; the rest of the tube is a vacuum, and affords space for the expansion of the liquid.... | |
| Thomas Liddell Ainsley - 1880 - 866 pages
...thermometer consists of a glass tube of very fine bore, having a bulb of thin glass at one extremity, and closed at the other. The bulb and part of the tube contains mercury ; the rest of the tube is a vacuum, and affords space for the expansion of the liquid.... | |
| Rudolph August Witthaus - 1890 - 554 pages
...measured by thermometers. The thermometer is; usually a glass tube, having a bulb blown at one extremity and closed at the other. The bulb and part of the tube are filled with mercury, or with alcohol, whose contraction or expansion indicates a fall or rise of temperature. The... | |
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