Cyclopadic Science SimplifiedF. Warne and Company, 1869 - 685 pages |
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Page 150
... bismuth , and another of iron , of the same size , and having coated the extremities with wax , they are both placed on the lid of a vessel filled with boiling water . Strange to say , the wax on the bismuth melts first , although it ...
... bismuth , and another of iron , of the same size , and having coated the extremities with wax , they are both placed on the lid of a vessel filled with boiling water . Strange to say , the wax on the bismuth melts first , although it ...
Page 151
... bismuth is only 00308 : like the mercury and the water experiment , it takes less heat to warm any given mass of bismuth than it does to heat an equal bulk of iron . The molecular motion which can be set up in bismuth occurs much ...
... bismuth is only 00308 : like the mercury and the water experiment , it takes less heat to warm any given mass of bismuth than it does to heat an equal bulk of iron . The molecular motion which can be set up in bismuth occurs much ...
Page 365
... bismuth , also suspended by a filament of silk , places itself at right angles to that position , as is shown at Fig . 338 . EQUATORIALLY BISMUTH FIG . 338 . In all these experiments the poles of the magnet , with their soft - iron arma ...
... bismuth , also suspended by a filament of silk , places itself at right angles to that position , as is shown at Fig . 338 . EQUATORIALLY BISMUTH FIG . 338 . In all these experiments the poles of the magnet , with their soft - iron arma ...
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