 | 1832 - 354 pages
...investigation to Pneumatics. | Since, by imparting heat continually to a body, it is made to pass successively from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous state, and by continually abstracting heat it may be transferred in the contrary direction... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...becoming: latent, or are disengaged by the changes of condition to which substances are liable in passing from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous form, or the contrary, occasioning endless vicissitudes of temperature over the globe. The... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pages
...becoming latent, or arc disengaged by the changes of condition to which substances are liable in passing from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous form, or the contrary, occasioning endless vicissitudes of temperature over the globe. The... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 604 pages
...most remarkable effect of heat upon bodies, however, is its tendency to make them change their form, from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous. The change of a solid into a liquid is usually termed its melting, fusion, or liquefaction;... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 336 pages
...most remarkable effect of heat upon bodies, however, is its tendency to make them change their form, from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous. The change of a solid into a liquid is usually termed its melting, fusion, or liquefaction;... | |
 | Carl Friedrich Peschel - 1846 - 206 pages
...stratum of fluid hetween the electromotors, from the resistance to the transmission of the current from the solid to the liquid and from the liquid to the solid, and from the retarding influence of the metal connecting contiguous plates. Hence it follows... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 568 pages
...becoming latent, or are disengaged by the changes of condition to which substances are liable in passing from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous form, or the contrary, occasioning endless vicissitudes of temperature over the globe. There... | |
 | John Johnston - 1850 - 396 pages
...THERMOMETERS. 27. We have seen above (17), that heat is capable of changing the form of bodies, as from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous state ; but before this change is effected, on the application of heat to nearly all bodies... | |
 | 398 pages
...of the ordinary thermometer is constructed with reference to the temperature at which water passes from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous state. The thermometer, or heat-measurer, consists of a glass tube, of very fine bore, and... | |
 | Charles Hood - 1855 - 736 pages
...in$epeBd«irt/<rf; the bodies as ascertained by direct measurement/ any change of state occurs, as from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the aeriform, curt vice versa, certain quantities of heat enter into or quit the respective substances, which, not... | |
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... passing from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous form, or the contrary, occasioning endless vicissitudes of temperature over the globe. 
