Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 549
hat it must be very near 3°.8, and that it might be regardedfor all practical purposes as at 4° without sensible error. In-deed, it is impossible with our present methods of observationto fix the point of maximum density witliin a quarter of aCentigrade degree ; nor is this important, since the… … geometry. The curve drawn with a heavy line has been plottedfrom the results of Pliicker and Geissler, and that with a lightline from those of Dospretz. The abscissas of the curves arethe degrees of temperature, and the ordinates are the amounts ofexpansion, — the number on the vertical axis being…
Matter · Heat
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