A laboratory manual in physics, to accompany Black and Davis' "Practical physics for secondary schools," (1913)
Black, Newton Henry, 1874- [from old catalog] · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 58
ee, and record this as the freezing point of your ther-mometer. The error is the difference between this readingand zero. II. Boiling Point. Carefully insert the thermometer inthe stopper of the steam boiler, so that the 100° mark on THE FIXED POINTS OF A THERMOMETER 43 the scale projects just a… … Fig. 24 III. Pressure of Steam and its Temperature. Since theboiling point of water is much affected by changes in pres-sure, it has been necessary to fix on some standard barometricpressure, and this is 760 mm. As the barometer is very sel-dom just at this point, it is necessary to know how to…
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