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 466
aseof weight of this sponge obviously repre-sents the ice which has been converted intowater.Now, since one pound of ice at 0° in melting to water at o^ absorbs 80thermal units (344), P pounds absorb 80 P units. On the other hand, thisquantity of heat is equal to the heat given out by the body in… … Fig- 425 fiitc = 80 P we have c ■■ Lavoisier and Laplace replaced the block of ice used by Black in hisexperiments by a more complicated apparatus which iscalled the tee calorimeter. Fig. 426 represents a section.It consists of three concentric tin vessels ; in thecentral one is placed the body M,…
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