Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 459
Fig 342. Fi?- 843. HEAT. 435 Since the temperature of boiling water and of the steam escap-ing from it varies with the atmospheric pressure, it is evidentlyessential to pay regard to this circumstance in graduating thethermometer. The fixed point adopted for the graduation is thetemperature at…
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