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 398
dein which heat is thus propagated in liquidsand in gases is said to be by co/ivectio/i. 409. Conductivity of g-ases.— It hasbeen a disputed question whether gases havea true conductivity, that is to say, a conduc-tion from layer to layer as with the metals ;but certainly when they are restrained… … Fig. 368. -410] Applications. 381 eider-down, and furs. The propagation of heat in a gaseous mass is effectedby means of the ascending and descending currents formed in it, as is thecase with hcjuids. The following experiment, a modification of one originally devised bySir W. Grove, is considered…
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