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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 the work is… … 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 1/492.6V,and, on the supposition that there would be no change of charac-teristics,…
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