Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 270
was that it be indestruc-tible and uncreatable. When it was added to bodies theybecame warmer, and when it was abstracted they grew cooler.To account for the different thermal capacities of substancesit was supposed that they had different attractions for caloric,and that some would absorb a… … 260 THERM OD YNA MICS. the disappearance of heat at the change of state, Black sup-posed that caloric could exist not only in the free state, butthat in such a case as the melting of ice, it became inactiveor so hidden that it could not be detected by the thermome-ter, whence he termed it latent,…
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