Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 543
of a curve applying the principlealready explained in (196). Fig. 381represents three such curves, those ofmercury, water, and alcohol. Here thenumbers on the horizontal axis indicatedegrees of temperature, and the numberson the vertical axis the correspondingamount of expansion, expressed in… … HEAT. 619 be noticed, that, although above 40° water expands more rap-idly than mercury, yet below this temperature the order is re-versed. Moreover, it will be seen that the curve of mercury is astraight line, showing that the amount of its expansion is propor-tional to the temperature, or, in…
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