Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 592
under the receiver of an air-pump andexhaust the air, the water wiU at once begin to boil violently.The same experiment may be tried even more simply in the fol-lowing way. Take a glass flask, to which a cork has-been carefully fitted,fill it about one half full of water, and heat the water to… … and cold water poured upon it, as represented in Pig. 403, theboiling will be renewed, and continue for some time. This apparent paradox of boiling water by cold is thus ex-plained. The cold water condenses the steam, producing avacuum in the upper part of the flask, and, the pressure of…
Matter · Heat
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