 | 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 having a... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1856 - 450 pages
...its different stages or degrees of temperature corresponding with the varied conditions of passing from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the vaporous state. These conditions have been carefully investigated by different authors ; but in order... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1856 - 374 pages
...its different stages or degrees of temperature corresponding with the varied conditions of passing from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the vaporous state. These conditions have been carefully investigated by different authors ; but in order... | |
 | Paul Frederick H. Baddeley - 1860 - 166 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," and, "water at the temperature of 32°, must part with 140°, of caloric, before... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1864 - 468 pages
...its different stages or degrees of temperature corresponding with the varied conditions of passing from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the vaporous state. These conditions have been carefully investigated by different authors; but, in order... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1864 - 472 pages
...its different stages or degrees of temperature corresponding with the varied conditions of passing from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the vaporous state. These conditions have been carefully investigated by different authors ; but, in order... | |
 | 1865 - 1144 pages
...continually as the temperature rises. Elevation of temperature, as well as change of state of aggregation from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous state, always requires absorption of heat. In order to find the quantity of heat existing in the body... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - 1866 - 446 pages
...well.known agent which causes change of state ; and it always acts in such a manner that a substance passes from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous state, by the addition of heat, and back again in the reverse direction by the withdrawal of this agent.... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - 1866 - 424 pages
...well-known agent which causes change of st and it always acts in such a manner that a substance pa from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gas< state, by the addition of heat, and back again in the rev direction by the withdrawal of this... | |
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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. 
