A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 90
at with very differ-ent degrees of speed, more heat escaping from them asthe number of coats is increased. Melloni found thatthe maximum was not attained until sixteen coats wereapplied. These results can only be explained on the principlethat radiation does not take place from the surface of What… … 78 REFLECTION OF RADIANT HEAT. bodies merely, but from a certain depth in their in-terior. A highly polished metal is a bad radiator, but onroughening it this quality is improved. As a generalrule, good radiators are bad reflectors, and good reflect-ors are bad radiators. This latter statement is…
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