Martin, Louis Adolphe, 1880- · New York : Wiley · leaf 149
dard hydrogen thermometer. Kelvin arbitrarily defmed temperature by means of therelation 6 Q where 6 and 9 are the temperatures of a source and ofa receiver of heat respectively and Q and Q are the quan-tities of heat supplied by this source and rejected to thisreceiver by any heat motor operating… … Fig. 28. This is the efficiency of any and every ideal reversiblecycle and it cannot be exceeded by any other cycle oper-ating between the same source and the same receiver ofheat. This expression is as yet meaningless. The sig-nificance of d must be established. The scale of tempera-ture must be…
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