Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 609
ment, and given in the foregoing table. Ithas been shown, however, by the investigations of Regnault, thatDaltons law is not absolutely rigorous, and at large distancesfrom the boiling-point is so far from coinciding with the facts,that it cannot be relied upon except for furnishing the first… … Pig. 413. and, moreover, that in any One casethe tension must be the greater thelower the boiling-point and hence themore volatile the liquid. These factsmay be illustrated by means of theapparatus represented in Fig. 413.It consists of four barometer-tubes,all dipping into the same basin…
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