 | Luke Howard - 1818 - 774 pages
...ratio than the temperature," is a proposition which appears to rest on the basis of experiment : but " that whenever two volumes of air of different temperatures...with vapour, a precipitation of a portion of vapour (water) must ensue," is at present demonstrated by no experiment that I know of, and requires, I think,... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1819 - 598 pages
...of rain. (See Edin. Trans. Vol. 1 and 2, and Button's Dissertations, &c). Without deciding whether vapour be simply expanded by heat, and diffused through...the mean temperature not being able to support the mean quantity of vapour. ".'. This explanation may be well illustrated by contemplating a curve convex... | |
 | 1819 - 556 pages
...of rain. (See Edin. Trans. Vol. 1 and 2, and Button's Dissertations, &c). Without deciding whether vapour be simply expanded by heat, and diffused through...the mean temperature not being' able to support the mean quantity of vapour. This explanation may be well illustrated by contemplating a curve convex towards... | |
 | Thomas Thomson, Richard Phillips, Edward William Brayley - 1820 - 518 pages
...whether vapour be simply expanded by heat, and diffused through the atmosphere, or chemically combiued with it, he maintained from the phenomena that the...the mean temperature not being able to support the mean quar«tityof vapour. This explanation may be well illustrated by contemplating a curve, convex... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1820 - 518 pages
...into the air increases in a greaterr ratio than the temperature ; and hence he fairly infers, thut whenever two volumes of air of different temperatures...the mean temperature not being able to support the mean quantity of vapour. This explanation may be well illustrated by contemplating a curve, convex... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1820 - 408 pages
...ratio than the temperature," is a proposition which appears to rest on the basis of experiment : but " that whenever two volumes of air of different temperatures...with vapour, a precipitation of a portion of vapour (water) must ensue," is at present demonstrated by no experiment that I know of, and requires, 1 think,... | |
 | Jonathan Otley - 1825 - 156 pages
...vapour capable of entering into air, increases in a greater ratio than the temperature ; of course, whenever two volumes of air, of different temperatures,...together, (each being previously saturated with vapour,) the mean temperature is not able to support the mean quantity of vapour ; and consequently the precipitation... | |
 | 1828 - 396 pages
...atmosphere, or chemically combined with it, lie maintained fiom the phenomena that the quantity of vapor capable of entering into the air, increases in a greater ratio than the temperatuie ; and hence he fairly infers, that whenever two volumes of air of different temperatures... | |
 | John Wakefield Francis - 1828 - 634 pages
...hoars, from November to April. In accounting for the fall of rain, Dr. Hutton, of Edinburgh, maintained that " the quantity of vapour capable of entering...increases in a greater ratio than the temperature ;" from whence it is inferred, that whenever two volumes of air of different temperatures are mixed... | |
 | Jonathan Otley - 1830 - 198 pages
...of vapour capable of entering into air, increases in a greater ratio than the temperature; therefore whenever two volumes of air, of different temperatures,...together, (each being previously saturated with vapour,) the mean temperature is not able to support the mean quantity of vapour; consequently its precipitation... | |
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Without deciding whether vapour be simply expanded by heat, and diffused through the atmosphere, or chemically combined with it, he maintained from the phenomena, that the quantity of vapour capable of entering into the air, increases in a greater ratio... 
