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 485
licate. It differs,however, from a thermometer in the fact that the divisions do not indicatethe temperature of the mercury in the bulb, but the number of thermal unitsimparted to it by the substances placed in the muffle. This graduation is effected as follows :—By working the piston themercury… … ^■^;• 437 glass test-tube, ^, is inserted, which is kept fixed against the buoyancy of themercury by a small wedge not represented in the figure. The tube beingthus adjusted, the point of a bulb tube (sec fig. 438) is introduced, con-taining water which is raised to the boiling point ; on turning…
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