Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 316
anew point of view. Without questioning the law in regard toair, he merely sought to ascertain whether all gases obeyed ex-actly the same law, or whether, when submitted to the samepressure, they indicated different degrees of compressibility.His experiments were conducted in the following way. He… … Fig. 270. FiK. 271. ervoir of mercury, and supported against a graduated scale, asrepresented in Fig. 270. The apparatus thus arranged was in- * They condensed the air, by means of a force-pump, into the chamber of an air-gun.Then by means of a balance they determined the weight of air introduced,…
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