Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 664
sion, as the vessel; moreover, water will continue to evaporateinto the atmosphere until the vapor has acquired the tensionand specific gravity which correspond to the temperature. Thereare, therefore, around the globe, as in the cubic vessel, two at-mospheres, one of air and the other of vapor.… … Kg. 445. 640 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. more water, and of course dries up the moisture from sub-stances with which it may be in contact. Thus, if the temper-ature is 20°, the air is saturated with vapor when it con-tains in every cubic metre 17.157 grammes (see table on page571) ; if it contained only…
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