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 88
string in the inclosure F within the SPECIFIC HEAT OF SOLIDS. 77 steam jacket. The steam after leaving the boiler passes intothis jacket, and then out into the tube DB, where, on cominginto contact with the cold air, it condenses and falls back intothe boiler. In this way a steady supply of steam… … Fig. SO. of which both ends of the inclosure F may be stopped, andradiation thus prevented. The unit of heat generally adopted is the quantity requiredto raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree centi-grade, and is called a calorie. It is found that, if equal masses oftwo different…
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