A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 86
ometer may be pass-ed through the lower mouth of the funnel, water-tightby means of a cork, and the position at which the index-liquid stands having been marked, some ether is pouredon the surface of the water, upon which it readily floats,and set on fire. A voluminous flame is the result, and Do… … a great deal of heat is evolved; and since the bulb ofthe thermometer is apparently sep- ^ 5T arated from the flame by a thin filmof water only, if the heat traversedthat film the thermometer shouldrapidly move, but it does not; wetherefore conclude that water is avery bad conductor of heat. But…
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