A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 82
us? Do all solids conductalike? Describe the experiment with a cylinder of wood, and oneof metal. Describe the apparatus of Ingenhausz. What does itprove ? rr CONDUCTION OF HEAT. 69 plicated with the specific heat of the substance, thathaving a low specific heat seeming to conduct morerapidly. It… … w w It consists of two similar bars of metal, B C, placedend to end; one may be of copper, the other of iron.To their under sides a number of balls of wood are at-tached by wax. On heating the junction A, the powerof conduction is seen to differ, from the fact that, onthe copper, the balls drop off…
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