Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 320
-Lussac first determined the coefficient of the expansion of gases bymeans of the apparatus represented in fig. 304. In a rectangular metal bath, about 16 inches long, was fitted an airthermometer, which consisted of a capillary tube, AB with a bulb, A, at one end. The tube^ was divided into parts… … Fig. 304. of mercury, which was weighed. The apparatus being again cooled downto zero, the vacant space in the tube corresponded to the weight of mercurywhich had overflowed ; the volume of mercury remaining in the apparatus,and consequently the volume of the bulb, was determined by…
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