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 446
out causing them to melt, or undergo somechange which would interfere with the accuracy of the result, Regnaultadopted an inverse process : he cooled them down to a temperature con-siderably below that of the water in the calorimeter, and then observed thediminution in the temperature of the… … Fi-. must be used. These liquids have the additional advantage of having alower specific heat than water, which has the highest of any liquid, so that anerror in determining the temperature of the cooling liquid has a less influenceon the value of the specific heat. With this view use has been made…
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