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)
apor ofthe water. If now the bulb, A, be immersed in a freezingmixture (309) of nitric acid and snow, the waterin the distant bulb, F, will soon be frozen. Theexplanation is simple. The vapor in A is rapidlycondensed, and the rapid evaporation of the waterin F, to supply the place of the vapor… … HEAT. 189 the air, condensed and precipitated to the earth in drops. Rain isgenerally occasioned by the union of two or more volumes of humidair, differing considerably in temperature; the several portions, Avhenmingled, being incapable of absorbing the same amount of moisturethat each would retain…
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