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pounds per square inch) is constant and is thesole pressure on the drop of mercury. The tube is now trans-ferred to a vessel of clean distilled water boiling freely in theopen air. The height to which our frictionless piston now rises ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES is now marked. The increase in volume when… … Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Air-thermometer. Absolute Temperature.—It is now evident that if we had cooledthe air below the freezing-point, for each (Fahrenheit) degree ofcooling the (original) volume, V, would have decreased 1/492.67,and, on the supposition that there would be no change of charac-teristics,…
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