There can scarcely be a doubt entertained respecting the reducibility of all elastic fluids of whatever kind into liquids; and -we ought not to despair of effecting it in low temperatures, and by strong pressure exerted upon the unmixed gases. Collected Papers of Sir James Dewar... - Page 163by Sir James Dewar - 1927Full view - About this book
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1798 - 772 pages
...commonly denominated gases. There can scarcely be a doubt entertained respecting the reducibility of of all elastic fluids of whatever kind into liquids;...temperatures and by strong pressure exerted upon the unmixed gases. However unessential the distinction between the gases and vapours may be in a chemical sense,... | |
| Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1802 - 556 pages
...reduced, into a liquid state ,by the united agency of those two powers, are commonly denomi.nated gases. -There can scarcely be a doubt entertained respecting...of effecting it in low temperatures and by strong. pressure'exerted upon the unmixed gases. However unessential the distinction between the gases and-vapours... | |
| 1894 - 576 pages
...by extreme cold, be reduced to liquids, and these again to solids. And Dalton wrote, in 1801 : — ' There can scarcely be a doubt entertained respecting...and by strong pressure exerted upon the ' unmixed gases.' * The experimental verification of this forecast, now all but complete, was begun by Faraday.... | |
| John Redman Coxe, Thomas Cooper - 1813 - 532 pages
...gases. There can •scarcely be a doubt entertained respecting the rcducibility II. H of all clastic fluids of whatever kind into liquids ; and we ought...temperatures and by strong pressure exerted upon the unmixed gases. However unessential the distinction between the gases and vapours may be in a chemical sense,... | |
| William Charles Henry - 1854 - 308 pages
...volume of air. It opens with the following anticipation of a subsequent discovery by Mr. Faraday :—" There can scarcely be a doubt entertained respecting...temperatures, and by strong pressure exerted upon the unmixed gases." He had previously, in his Meteorological Essays (p. 127, 2nd ed.), published a table of the... | |
| William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 546 pages
...suggested by Mr. Daltonf that all gases are convertible into liquids. "There can scarcely," he observes, " be a doubt entertained respecting the reducibility...temperatures, and by strong pressure exerted upon the unmixed gases." It fortunately occurred to Mr. Faraday that the most probable means of exhibiting gases (or... | |
| William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 556 pages
...scarcely," ic observes, " be a doubt entertained respecting the redueibility of all elastic fluida, of whatever kind, into liquids; and we ought not to...temperatures, and by strong pressure exerted upon the unmixed gases." It fortunately occurred to Mr. Faraday that the most probable means of exhibiting gases (or... | |
| Henry Lonsdale - 1867 - 338 pages
...the anticipation of a discovery subsequently made by Dr Michael Faraday. Dalton's words are : — " There can scarcely be a doubt entertained respecting...temperatures, and by strong pressure exerted upon the unmixed gases." His experiments made on the vapours of sulphuric ether, spirits of wine, water of ammonia,... | |
| Henry Lonsdale - 1874 - 352 pages
...the anticipation of a discovery subsequently made by Dr Michael Faraday. Dalton's words are : — " There can scarcely be a doubt entertained respecting...temperatures, and by strong pressure exerted upon the unmixed gases." His experiments made on the vapours of sulphuric ether, spirits of wine, water of ammonia,... | |
| Victoria and Albert museum - 1876 - 550 pages
...Faraday, of the condensation of gases. "There can scarcely be a doubt entertained," says Dalton, " respecting the reducibility of all elastic fluids,...temperatures, .and by strong pressure exerted upon the unmixed gases." Although this conclusion has not been universally carried out, yet the expression of the possibility... | |
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