A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 50
t of Water and other Bodies. The capacity of gases for heat is determined bywarming a known weight by means of a spiral tube im-mersed in hot oil, and then conducting the gas througha vessel surrounded by a known weight of water. Theinquiry is attended by very great difficulties. When the volume of… … heat increases, and a diminution of volume is attendedwith a diminution of capacity. If a Bre- p^.25.guets thermometer be placed under the re-ceiver of an air-pump, which is rapidly ex-hausted, Fig. 25, a sudden reduction of tem-perature is indicated. As the rarefactionproceeds the capacity for…
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