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 170
FAVRE AND SILBERMANNS CALORIMETER. 155 IX. FAVRE AND SILBERMANNS CALORIMETER. This is in reality a large thermometer, consisting of a reservoirA (Fig. 8), which contains about fifty pounds of mercury andwhich has a graduated stem CD with a fine bore into which themercury of the reservoir when… … Fig. 8. on the interior of the reservoir and move the thread of mercuryto any desired point; and there are two or three openings in Ain which heated bodies may be placed and thereby give outtheir heat to the mercury in the reservoir. The instrument is first graduated by taking a known weightof…
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