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" Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it is evident that the particles of matter must have space between them, and since every body can communicate the power of expansion to a body of a lower temperature ; that is, can give... "
A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy: With Their Applications - Page 252
by Andrew Ure - 1831 - 844 pages
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The Earth: Its Physical Condition and Most Remarkable Phenomena

William Mullinger Higgins - 1838 - 426 pages
...communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion. Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it is evident...temperature, that is, can give an expansive motion to its particles, it is a probable inference that its own particles are possessed of motion; but as there...
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The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art, Volume 2

1841 - 444 pages
...as the laws of the communication of motion. Since all matter may be made to rill a smaller votnnie by cooling, it is evident that the particles of matter...temperature, that is, can give an expansive motion to its particles, it is a probable inference that its own particles are possessed of motion ; but, as there...
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Lessons on the globes

T H. Howe - 1842 - 458 pages
...The ultimate particles of matter are thus demonstrably not in contact — " Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it is evident...particles of matter must have space between them." — Sir H. Davy. 1 . Take the quadrant of altitude and bend it : the molecules which compose that portion...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge ..., Volume 4

Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 876 pages
...communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion. Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it is evident...temperature ; that is, can give an expansive motion to its particles, it is a probable inference that its own particles are possessed of motion ; but as there...
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A Manual of Geographical Science: Mathematical, Physical, Historical ..., Part 1

Charles Grenfell Nicolay - 1852 - 476 pages
...immediate cause of the phenomena of heat is motion. Since matter may be made to fill a smaller space by cooling, it is evident that the particles of matter must have space between them It is also possible that the particles themselves may be actually smaller than the intervening space...
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Elements of Experimental and Natural Philosophy ...

Jabez Hogg - 1853 - 390 pages
...communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion. Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it is evident...temperature, that is, can give an expansive motion to its particles, it is a probable inference that its own particles are possessed of a motion ; but as there...
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Elements of Experimental and Natural Philosophy: Being a Familiar and Easy ...

Jabez Hogg - 1861 - 594 pages
...communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion. Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it is evident that the parti«les of matter must have space between them ; and since every body can communicate the power...
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Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion: Being a Course of Twelve Lectures ...

John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 pages
...same as the laws of the communication of motion.' Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller space by cooling, it is evident that the particles of matter...temperature— that is, can give an expansive motion to its particles — it is a probable inference that its own particles are possessed of motion ; but as there...
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Heat considered as a mode of motion: 12 lects

John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...same as the laws of the communication of motion.' Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller space by cooling, it is evident that the particles of matter...temperature — that is, can give an expansive motion to its particles — it is a probable inference that its own particles are possessed of motion; but as there...
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Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion: Being a Course of Twelve Lectures ...

John Tyndall - 1864 - 484 pages
...may be made to fill a smaller space by cooling, it is evident that the particles of matter must haye space between them ; and since every body can communicate...temperature — that is, can give an expansive motion to its particles — it is a probable inference that its own particles are possessed of motion ; but as there...
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