s of the} to the compression apparatus by a metallic capillary tube. | taining another cylinder in which is the fine tube in which very important experiments made by M. Raoul Pictet,| Water, under the action of the plunger, enters this reser-| the gas is liquefied. This capillary tube may thus be… … is a sure sign of the liquefaction or even congelation of the | voir and acts on mercury, which compresses the gas. 3 is| ‘If oxygen or pure carbonic oxide be inclosed in the gases hitherto regarded as permanent. The other por-|the adjutage which receives the glass vessel which contains |…
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