Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied : for the use of colleges and schools (1906)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, Edmund, 1831-1901, Reinold, A. W. (Arnold William), 1843-1921 · New York : Wood · leaf 317
sinks. The gold is placed betweenthe other two metals because its expansibility, is intermediate between thatof the silver and that of the platinum. Were these two metals employedalone, their rapid unequal expansion might cause a fracture. Breguetsthermometer is empirically graduated in Centigrade… … 311. Maximum and minimum thermometers.—It is necessary, in meteoro-logical observations, to know the highest temperature of theday and the lowest temperature of the night. Ordinarythermometers could only give these indications by a continuousobservation, which would be impracticable. Several…
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