A course of six lectures on the chemical history of a candle [electronic resource]: to which is added, a lecture on platinum (1865)
Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867, Crookes, William, 1832-1919 · London : Charles Griffin and Company · leaf 76
e vessel,when it immediately collapsed.] You see what 64 CONTRACTION OE STEAM WHEN CONDENSED. has happened. If I had closed the stopper, andstill kept the heat applied to it, it would haveburst the vessel; yet, when the steam returnsto the state of water, the vessel collapses, therebeing a vacuum… … Fig. 12. still remains water; and so the vessel is obligedto give way, and is crushed inwards, as in the -RELATIVE BULKS OE WATER AND STEAM. 65 other case, by the further application of heat, itwould have been blown outwards. And what do you think the bulk of thatwater is when it assumes the…
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