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 394
theorder of their respective conductivities. The quickness with which meltingtakes place is, however, only a measure of the conducting power, in case themetals have the same or nearly the same specific heat. Despretz compared the conducting powers of solids by forming them intobars (fig. 364), in… … such as that of a bath of paraffin or of fusible metal heated by a Bunsensburner ; the thermometers gradually rise until they indicate fixed tempera-tures, which are less according as the thermometers are farther from thesource of heat By this method Despretz verified the following law :—If…
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