Natural philosophy. being a hand-book of chemical physics, or, The physics of heat, light and electricity (1869)
Sangster, John Herbert, 1831-1904 · Montreal : J. Lovell · leaf 64
b b contains adelicate thermometer. Tlie instrumentacts upon the principle of the Cryo-phorus. When an observation is to bemade, the muslin about a is keptmoistened with ether, which by itsevaporation produces cold. The va-pour contained in a is thus condensedand evaporation of the ether in b… … 58 SPHEROIDAL STATE. LECTURE XI. SPHEROIDAL STATE OF MATTER. 130. If into a red-hot crucible we pour a small quantity of water,and continue to keep the crucible intensely heated, the waterassumes the form of a sphere, and, gliding with a peculiar rota-tory motion over the bottom of the capsule,…
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