Millikan, Robert Andrews, Gale, Henry Gordon · Boston : Ginn and Co. · leaf 52
ir we may * A laboratory experiment on Boyles law should follow this discussion.See, for example, Experiment 9 of the authors Manual. COMPRESSIBILITY OF AIR 37 know that the air, unhke the sea, must become less and lessdense as we ascend from the bottom toward the top. Thus,at the top of Mont… … Airdeiiiiities Fig. oO. Extent and chaiacUn- of atmosphere No one has ever ascended higher than 7 miles, which wasapproximately the height attained in 1862 by the two daringEnglish aeronauts Glaisher and Coxwell. At this altitude thebarometric height is but about 7 inches, and the temperatureabout…
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