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... the same result in atmo- spheres by compression . But in all the observations as yet made he has used an instrument which may be termed a self - registering 66 Marine Dynamometer . " This dynamometer is contained in an 13.
... the same result in atmo- spheres by compression . But in all the observations as yet made he has used an instrument which may be termed a self - registering 66 Marine Dynamometer . " This dynamometer is contained in an 13.
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Royal Society of Edinburgh. Marine Dynamometer . " This dynamometer is contained in an iron cylinder , which is fixed to the rock where the experiments are to be made . The instrument consists of a plate or disc attached to a powerful ...
Royal Society of Edinburgh. Marine Dynamometer . " This dynamometer is contained in an iron cylinder , which is fixed to the rock where the experiments are to be made . The instrument consists of a plate or disc attached to a powerful ...
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... contained no water , and must therefore be composed according to the formula , 2 Mg0 + 3 P , 0 ,. This formula , the author shewed , could not be reconciled with the prevalent views of the constitution of phosphates , and the existence ...
... contained no water , and must therefore be composed according to the formula , 2 Mg0 + 3 P , 0 ,. This formula , the author shewed , could not be reconciled with the prevalent views of the constitution of phosphates , and the existence ...
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... contain 18.4 grains of soluble matter per gallon . This was chiefly the usual salts of lime and organic matter . He examined the surface and subsoils of the field , and found them to contain , besides silica and alumina , iron , lime ...
... contain 18.4 grains of soluble matter per gallon . This was chiefly the usual salts of lime and organic matter . He examined the surface and subsoils of the field , and found them to contain , besides silica and alumina , iron , lime ...
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... contained in the following table , where the numbers are all corrected , and compared with the mean temperature of the air , and the quantity of rain . It will be observed , that several of the observations of the warmer months have ...
... contained in the following table , where the numbers are all corrected , and compared with the mean temperature of the air , and the quantity of rain . It will be observed , that several of the observations of the warmer months have ...
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Página 272 - It was, I confess, with some surprise, that, after having completed the observations under an impression that they presented great discrepancies from the theoretical expectations, I found the numbers I had noted down indicated in reality an agreement so remarkably close, that I could not but attribute it in some degree to chance, when I reflected on the very rude manner in which the quantitative parts of the experiment (especially the measurement of the pressure, and the evaluation of the division...
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Página 269 - ... was pointed out as a highly interesting object for experimental research. To test the phenomenon by experiment without applying excessively great pressure, a very sensitive thermometer would be required, since for ten atmospheres the effect expected is little more than the tenth part of a Fahrenheit degree; and the thermometer employed, if founded on the expansion of a liquid in a glass bulb and tube, must be protected from the pressure of the liquid, which, if acting on it, would produce a deformation,...
Página 319 - All good manufacturers of chloroform purify it by the action of oil of vitriol, which destroys the oils, while at the same time a part of the acid is reduced to sulphurous acid. The chloroform, to remove this, is then distilled with lime or carbonate of baryta, and is tolerably pure if the process be well conducted. 7. But it is not quite pure, and contains a trace, more or less distinct, of the oils.