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)
any liquids, and some solids, vaporize. Mercury, whose boiling pointis as high as 662° F., evaporates at all temperatures above 60°. 326. Causes that accelerate evaporation.—The principal•causes which influence the amount and rapidity of evaporation are: .1. Pressure.—Increased pressure diminishes… … 184 HEAT AND STEAM-ENGINE. 3. Increased surface facilitates evaporation. 3. Increased temperature increases evaporation. 4. Diminished quantity of vapor in the air, or dry air, facilitatesevaporation. 5. Renewal or circulation of the air over the fluid accelerates evapora-tion by constantly…
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