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 330
are inversely as their densities (106), aprinciple independent of the diameters of the vessels, and therefore of theirexpansions. The apparatus consists of two glass tubes, A and B (fig. 321), joined bya narrow tube and kept vertical on an iron support, KM, the horizontalityof which is adjusted by… … Fig. 321 the furnace, which is represented in section so as to show the case. Mercuryis poured into the tubes A and B ; it remains at the same level in both aslong as they are at the same temperature, but rises in B in proportion as thetemperature rises. The diameter of the horizontal tube is small…
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