Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 495
etermining the temperature of thebasket and its contents. During the process of heating, thebasket is suspended by means of silk cords in the interior of a * Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 2« S&ie, Tom. LXXIII. p. 20.40 470 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. steam-bath, formed of three concentric cylinders… … Fig 364 steam, which is constantly supplied from the boiler C, and after^wards condensed in the worm s; and, lastly, the space betweenthe steam-chamber and the outer cylinder is filled with air, which,being a non-conductor, diminishes the loss of heat by the bath,and thus tends to keep its…
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