Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 211
rods of different kinds of solids, such as metals,marble, wood, glass, find the like. Ingenhousz coated the different rods with a soft wax that Explain the effect of a stone thrown upon icct Of a dark cloth upon snoicfWuy ii water ttoonext heated in black and unpolished vessels f In what vessel*… … Fig. 14-2. would melt at about 140° F., and then filled the vessel withboiling water. Upon some of the rods the wax meltedrapidly, upon some more slowly, and upon others not at all.This showed that the rods varied in their conductibility. It has been shown that metals are the best conductors,…
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