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Scientific American, Vol. 26, No. 24 (1872) (1872)

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water, A, is tightly corked (Fig. 10); further, and found that the boiling each other’s play, and produce immediately a re-arrangement: through the cork a tube, ¢, passes watertight, and the liquid point of water was very greatly ele- of the molecules with respect to their axes, rises within it. A… … freezing point.] “To solidify, water must expand. But if the a way did this fact act in the potential power of his mind. vessel be rigid it cannot do so, hence, in a rigid vessel, it He had known and wondered at the extraordinary power would remain longer liquid. For every additional atmosphere…

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