Experimental engineering and manual for testing. For engineers and for students in engineering laboratories (1906)
Carpenter, Rolla C. (Rolla Clinton), 1852-1919 · New York, J. Wiley & Sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 491
in a large wooden vessel. The value of the fuel burned is determined from the risein temperature of the water; account being taken of theweight of water and also the weights and specific heats of allparts of the calorimeter. Usually during combustion somenitric acid is formed which is deposited on… … Fig. 211.—Charging Calorimeter with Oxygen. errors of observation. To avoid the numerous corrections and the tedious calculations which result therefrom, thechemist Hempel adopted the plan of standardizing his instru-ments by burning definite amounts of pure carbon, the valueof which he took as…
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