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 391
-384] Apparatus to Liquefy and Solidify Gases 373 mixture of these two substances solidifies four times its weight of mercury ina few minutes. When a tube containing Hcjuid carbonic acid is placed inthis mixture, the liquid becomes solid and looks like a transparent pieceof ice. The most remarkable… … ■■g- 37 solidifies. The same is the case with water ; it must be added drop bydrop, otherwise, its latent heat being much greater than that of mercury, theheat given up by the water in solidifying would be sufficient to cause anexplosion of the nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide is readily decomposed by…
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