Stewart, Balfour, 1828-1887 · Toronto : James Campbell · leaf 96
willbe conducted very slowly indeed downwards through BODIES.] PHYSICS. 87 the liquid; in fact, a few inches do^vn, the rise oftemperature will be hardly perceptible. But if insteadof heating the vessel with water in it from above weheat it from below, as in the figure, we shall find thatin a very… … Fig. 28. that we have a current as is shown by the arrows inthe figure, the heated water ascending in the middleand the cold water coming down the sides. We have several good examples of convection innature; for instance, in a lake which is cooled at itssurface by the action of intense cold. The…
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