 | 1832 - 354 pagine
...investigation to Pneumatics. | Since, by imparting heat continually to a body, it is made to pass successively from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous state, and by continually abstracting heat it may be transferred in the contrary direction... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pagine
...becoming: latent, or are disengaged by the changes of condition to which substances are liable in passing from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous form, or the contrary, occasioning endless vicissitudes of temperature over the globe. The... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pagine
...becoming latent, or arc disengaged by the changes of condition to which substances are liable in passing from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous form, or the contrary, occasioning endless vicissitudes of temperature over the globe. The... | |
 | James Renwick - 1840 - 412 pagine
...which this law of specific heat has a tendency to maintain, to which we shall presently advert. § 144. When matter undergoes one of the great physical changes,...becomes sensible. It was Dr. Black who, about the year 1747, originally investigated the phenomena of latent heat with singular success, and his researches... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 604 pagine
...most remarkable effect of heat upon bodies, however, is its tendency to make them change their form, from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous. The change of a solid into a liquid is usually termed its melting, fusion, or liquefaction;... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 336 pagine
...most remarkable effect of heat upon bodies, however, is its tendency to make them change their form, from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous. The change of a solid into a liquid is usually termed its melting, fusion, or liquefaction;... | |
 | Carl Friedrich Peschel - 1846 - 206 pagine
...stratum of fluid hetween the electromotors, from the resistance to the transmission of the current from the solid to the liquid and from the liquid to the solid, and from the retarding influence of the metal connecting contiguous plates. Hence it follows... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 568 pagine
...becoming latent, or are disengaged by the changes of condition to which substances are liable in passing from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous form, or the contrary, occasioning endless vicissitudes of temperature over the globe. There... | |
 | John Johnston - 1850 - 396 pagine
...THERMOMETERS. 27. We have seen above (17), that heat is capable of changing the form of bodies, as from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous state ; but before this change is effected, on the application of heat to nearly all bodies... | |
 | 398 pagine
...of the ordinary thermometer is constructed with reference to the temperature at which water passes from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous state. The thermometer, or heat-measurer, consists of a glass tube, of very fine bore, and... | |
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... passing from the solid to the liquid, and from the liquid to the gaseous form, or the contrary, occasioning endless vicissitudes of temperature over the globe. 
