Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
ric capacity.—The amount of heatwhich a body is capable of absorbing, as above described, is called thespecific heat, or caloric capacity of the body. 232. The unit of heat, or thermal unit, is the quantity ofheat required to raise a pound of water from 32° to 33° F. 233. Standard of specific… … 152 HEAT AND STEAM-ENGINE. TABLE SHOWING SPECIFIC HEAT OF DIFFERENT SUBSTANCES. Water 1.000 Ice 513 Charcoal 414 Sulphur 241 Glass 203 Diamond 147 Iron 114 Nickel 109 Cobalt 106.96 Zinc 95.55 Copper 95.15 Arsenic 81.40 Silver 57.01 Gold 32.44 Platinum 32.43 Mercury 33.32 234- Effect of specific…
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