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 348
themercury being heated as well as the substance. The expansion of themercury compresses the air, the elastic force of which reacts on the sub-stance and exerts on it a gradually increasing pressure. It only thenremains to observe the temperature at which the substance solidifies, andthe… … Fig. 331 Fig. 332 melted at 60° under a pressure of 519 atmospheres and at 80° under 792atmospheres ; the melting point of sulphur under these pressures wasrespectively 135° and 141°. Ice is a substance which contracts on melting ; hence, according to thetheor), the effect of increased pressure…
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