| William Whewell - 1837 - 556 pages
...— The Doctrine of Latent Heat. THE Doctrine of Latent H«at is this : that in the change of a body from the solid to the liquid, or from the liquid to the aerial form, heat, is communicated to the body which is not indicated by the thermometer ; or, as it... | |
| 1843 - 812 pages
...applied to designate the heat •which is absorbed by bodies when they undergo a change of aggregation from the solid to the liquid, or from the liquid to the gaseous state. Thus, the heat which is required to convert ice, at a temperature of 32°, into water of the... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 876 pages
...caloric, which then becomes latent or insensible. And as heat is always absorbed in the passage of a body from the solid to the liquid, or from the liquid to the gaseous state, and again given out in the converse operation, the caloric thus taken up is either the actual... | |
| Reynell Coates - 1846 - 692 pages
...converted into a solid mass, so as to be handled and broken in pieces. 138. Whenever any substance passes from the solid to the liquid or from the liquid to the aeriform or gaseous state, caloric is absorbed and rendered latent or insensible ; and whenever a substance... | |
| Frederick Overman - 1851 - 452 pages
...former density, or is expanded three times. LATENT HEAT. If matter undergoes an important change, as from the solid to the liquid, or from the liquid to the gaseous state, it absorbs 'heat which is not measurable by the thermometer. In .matter which is condensed,... | |
| Alexander Fisher Olmsted - 1851 - 346 pages
...cold. QUANTITY OF HEAT IN BODIES. 59. Latent heat is observed, when bodies are changing their form from the solid to the liquid, or from the liquid to the aeriform state. But another equally remarkable phenomenon of heat is observed, in the amount necessary... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1858 - 474 pages
...observation. Latent heat always comes into play when a body changes its state of aggregation; when it passes from the solid to the liquid, or from the liquid to the vaporous or gaseous condition. While the case of water is still fresh in our minds, let us take it... | |
| Sir William Fairbairn - 1861 - 328 pages
...explained that in all changes in the state of aggregation of bodies heat becomes latent or sensible. If a body passes from the solid to the liquid, or from the liquid to the gaseous state, heat becomes latent; in the inverse process an equal amount of heat becomes sensible. Black... | |
| Thomas Wright - 1862 - 1134 pages
...in distinction from sensible heat; the portion of heat which disappears when a body changes its form from the solid to the liquid, or from the liquid to the aeriform state. LATEK, Id-ter, a. comparative degree of late. Posterior ; subsequent. LATERAL, laf-er-al,... | |
| Daniel Dollfus-Ausset - 1864 - 696 pages
...changes. Tbc greatest of these changes occurs when a body passes from one slate of aggregation to another, from the solid to the liquid , or from the liquid to the aeriform state ; and the quantity of heat required for such changes is often enormous. To convert a... | |
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