A laboratory course in experimental physics (1896)
Loudon, W. J. (William James), McLennan, John Cunningham, joint author · New York and London, Macmillan and Co. · leaf 159
— To perform the experiment, any arrangementwill suffice whereby a glass vessel can be completely filled with mercury at zero, and thenheated to some knowntemperature; but the fol-lowing apparatus will befound very convenient. A glass envelope, witha capillary tube attachedand bent twice, is… … WEIGHT THERMOMETER. 145 iron basket; the whole being supported in a circular brass platewith a handle attached. The outer vessel is of thick copper,and, when heated from below with a gas-burner, the air insidethe bulb expands and bubbles up through the mercury in theiron cup. Then it is cooled by…
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