The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 6Childs & Peterson, 1840 |
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... degree of heat is required to break the co- hesion between water and air . Air moderately heated will support a ... degree of boiling , its particles in quitting it so repel each other , as to take up vastly more space than before , and ...
... degree of heat is required to break the co- hesion between water and air . Air moderately heated will support a ... degree of boiling , its particles in quitting it so repel each other , as to take up vastly more space than before , and ...
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... degree of cold , even to freezing , might be pro- duced by evaporation . I have not had leisure to repeat and examine more than the first and easiest of them , viz . Wet the ball of a thermometer by a feather dipped in spirit of wine ...
... degree of cold , even to freezing , might be pro- duced by evaporation . I have not had leisure to repeat and examine more than the first and easiest of them , viz . Wet the ball of a thermometer by a feather dipped in spirit of wine ...
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... degrees of heat and cold mentioned , as measured by one or the other of those thermometers , and one is at a loss to reduce that least known to the other . Rule . Suppose the degree mentioned is 25 of Réaumur , which is 25 degrees above ...
... degrees of heat and cold mentioned , as measured by one or the other of those thermometers , and one is at a loss to reduce that least known to the other . Rule . Suppose the degree mentioned is 25 of Réaumur , which is 25 degrees above ...
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I | 3 |
Causes of Earthquakes 15 December 1737 | 14 |
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