A text-book of physics, largely experimental. On the Harvard college "Descriptive list of elementary physical experiments." (1891)
Hall, Edwin Herbert, 1855-1938, Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917 · New York, H. Holt and Company · leaf 380
liquid * If the cold water is allowed to flow over into the flask, the lattermay be broken. f If this tube is closed before the flame is removed an explosionwill probably occur. CHANGES OF PHYSICAL STATE. 357 can exert increases with rise of temperature; and so, witha given external pressure, there… … FIG. 194. formation of vapor absorbs, renders latent, the heat thatis supplied by the flame. See Exercise 46. The table in Appendix IV. shows that the maximumvapor-pressure of water is equal at 100° C. to the pressureof 760 mm. of mercury, the standard barometer pressure.Different substances vary…
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