| Mary Somerville - Physical sciences - 1846 - 496 pages
...condensed into water. Water boils at different temperatures under different degrees of pressure. It boils at a lower temperature on the top of a mountain than in the plain below, because the weight of the atmosphere is less at the higher station. There is no... | |
| Mary Somerville - Physical sciences - 1849 - 568 pages
...condensed into water. Water boils at different temperatures under different degrees of pressure. It boils at a lower temperature on the top of a mountain than in the plain below, because the weight of the atmosphere is less at the higher station. There is no... | |
| William Gregory - Chemistry, Inorganic - 1853 - 316 pages
...begins to boil briskly. In a vacuum water may be made to boil by the heat of the hand. For a similar reason, water boils at a lower temperature on the top of a mountain than at its foot, being pressed upon by a less column of air in the former case. For every 430 feet we ascend,... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1863 - 474 pages
...water to such a degree that it is finally covered with ice. 441. Miscellaneous Experiment*.— * In a vacuum, boiling commences at a much lower temperature...vacuum. If the air is readmitted, the beer resumes itsusual appearance. 443. A shrivelled apple in an exhausted receiver is puffed out to its full size... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1866 - 468 pages
...water to such a degree that it is finally covered with ice. 441. Miscellaneous Experiments, — In a vacuum, boiling commences at a much lower temperature...readmitted, the beer resumes its usual appearance. 448. A shrivelled apple in an exhausted receiver is puffed out to its full size by the expansion of... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1869 - 462 pages
...finally covered with ice. 441. Miscellaneous Experiments.—In a vacuum, .boiling commences at a mucb lower temperature than in the air. This is shown by...temperature on the top of a mountain than at its base, as bas often been observed by travellers. 442. If beer is placed under a receiver and the air exhausted,... | |
| Le Roy Clark Cooley - Physics - 1869 - 320 pages
...Whatever may be its cause, the effect of pressure is to raise the boiling point. It is well known that water boils at a lower temperature on the top of a mountain than at its base. It does so because the pressure of the air upon it is less. This very important principle may be easily... | |
| Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1873 - 444 pages
...or whether one day differed in temperature from the next. It would even inform us that water boiled at a lower temperature on the top of a mountain than at the bottom, and that ice melted at the same temperature both at the top and bottom; but its indications... | |
| Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe - Chemistry, Inorganic - 1874 - 412 pages
...or whether one day differed in temperature from. the next. It would even inform us that water boiled at a lower temperature on the top of a mountain than at the bottom, and that ice melted at the same temperature both at the top and bottom; but its indications... | |
| Le Roy Clark Cooley - Physics - 1880 - 340 pages
...Whatever.may be its cause, the effect of pressure is to raise the boiling point. It is well known that water boils at a lower temperature on the top of a mountain than at its base. It does so because the pressure of the air upon it is less. This very important principle may be easily... | |
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