, which is three mileshigli, water will boil at 85° ; and if a traveller wereto try to boil an egg in a pan at the top of Mont 96 SCIENCE PRIMERS. [heated Blanc, lie might boil it for hours, Iml it would notharden, because 85° is not high enough to harden tiiowhite of Jin egg. On the other hand, if… … ng. 20. boiling-point depends upon the pressure of gas or airupon the surface of the water. Let us take a glassflask and fill it half full of water^ then cause the Avaterto boil for some time, until the steam has driven outall the air from the ujiper part of the flask, so thatwe have only Avater,…
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