Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 224
ture of the substance.Any attempt to compress the vaporbeyond this point (saturation) will resultin the condensation of a portion into theliquid state. This behavior of a vapormay be easily shown by means of abarometer tube. A (Fig. 154), immersed in a cistern of mer-cury, B. If a few drops of… … Fig. 154. 214 CHANGE OF STATE. vapor in the space be. If the tube be now pushed furtherdown into the cistern, the volume of the vapor will decrease,and its pressure, which is measured by the fall of the levelof the mercury c below c?, will increase until liquid etherbegins to collect at the top of…
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