Tyndall, John, 1820-1893 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 194
is 2° Centigrade,or more than 3^° Fahr., below the temperature at whichit could boil. How then is it possible that an eruptioncould occur under such circumstances ? LEOT. TI. BUNSENS THEORY. 169 Fix your attention upon the water at the point a,where the temperature is within 2° C. of the hoiling… … geyser column is elevated six feet, a height quite withinthe limits of actual observation; the water at A is therebytransferred to b. Its boiling point at a is 123-8°, and itsactual temperature 121-8°; but at b its boiling point isonly 120-*°; hence, when transferred from a to b, theheat which it…
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