A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 59
i-ties of latent heat:ether, 163°; alcohol,375°; bromine, 82°;iodine, 43°. It is thelarge amount of latentheat which makessteam so efficient inwarming. The steamarising from one gal-lon of water will raisethe temperature offive gallons from thefreezing to the boil-ing point; its heat ofelasticity… … VAPORIZATION. 47 it visibly red-hot in the daylight. In the warming ofbuildings by steam-pipes, each square foot of their sur-face will heat 200 cubic feet of the surrounding air to75°, and will require about 170 cubic inches of boilercapacity for its supply. The latent heat of vapors is determined…
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