Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 458
it is evident that the rise of the mercury in the tube willbe proportional to the expansion, so that we have in the ther-mometer an instrument with which we can measure any changeof volume of the included liquid ; and if we assume that theexpansion is proportional to the increase of temperature, it… … Fig. 340. 434 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. bulb and the portion of the tube filled with mercury are first sur-rounded by pulverized ice, and the point to which the mercury fallsis marked with a file on the stem (Fig.341). The thermometer is next immersedin steam escaping freely into the atmos-phere, and the…
Matter · Heat
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