 | Alexander Smith, James Kendall - 1926 - 1088 pages
...definite temperature (when the pressure is fixed). Such temperatures, when referring to the change from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous state, are called the melting-point or freezingpoint, and the boiling-point, respectively, or in general,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1869 - 428 pages
...nature of heat, the cause of its " repulsive agency," and the reasons for the changes of condition from the solid to the liquid and from the liquid to the gaseous condition, which continued additions of heat produce upon matter. temperature will be represented by the momentum,... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1884 - 410 pages
...The credit of the suggestion of both of the points now used, the epochs of change of state of water from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the vaporous conditions respectively, belongs to our countrymen. Robert Hooke, who, as my predecessor told... | |
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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. 
