Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 140
ey have been disturbed. The phe-nomena of elasticity may be developed in solids by compression,by tension, hj flexure, or by torsion. In fluids, however, elasticitycan be developed only by compression, and it is only this formof elasticity, therefore, which can be regarded as a general prop-erty of… … Kg. 51. 116 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. diminished is removed, however long it may have been ap-plied. Gases tend to expand indefinitely, and, other circumstancesbeing equal, a definite volume always corresponds to a givenpressure. If the pressure is increased, the volume diminishes,and if the pressure is…
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