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 334
323). Hallstrom made a determination ofthe maximum density of water in thefollowing manner :—He took a glass bulb,loaded with sand, and weighed it in water of different temperatures. Allow-ing for the expansion of glass, he found that 4-1° was the temperature atwhich it lost most weight, and… … Fig. 323 331] Temperature of Maximum Density 317 placing it in a bath, the temperature of which was indicated by an ordinarymercury thermometer, found that, making due allowance for the change ofvolume of the glass bulb, the water contracted to the greatest extent at 4°,and that this therefore is…
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