| Andrew Jamieson - Steam - 1889 - 532 pages
...same temperature.* The following definition of sensible and latent heat will now be quite clear: — "Heat given to a substance, and warming it, is said...substance, and not warming it, is said to become latent " (Sir Wm. Thomson). Latent heat is the quantity of heat which must be communicated to unit mass oft... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - Mathematics - 1890 - 546 pages
...it were given up a term would be needed to replace it, and it seems impossible to invent a better. Heat given to a substance and warming it, is said...substance and not warming it, is said to become latent. These designations express with perfect clearness the relation of certain material phenomena to our... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - Mathematics - 1890 - 578 pages
...it were given up a term would be needed to replace it, and it seems impossible to invent a better. Heat given to a substance and warming it, is said...substance and not warming it, is said to become latent. These designations express with perfect clearness the relation of certain material phenomena to our... | |
| Andrew Jamieson - Steam engineering - 1897 - 658 pages
...temperature.* The following definition of sensible and latent heat will now be quite clear : — " Heat given to a substance, and warming it, is said...substance, and not warming it, is said to become latent" (Sir Win. T/tonison). Latent heat is the quantity of heat which must be communicated to unit mass oft... | |
| Andrew Jamieson - Steam - 1897 - 362 pages
...temperature.* The following definition of sensible and latent heat will now be quite clear : — " Heat given to a substance, and warming it, is said...substance, and not warming it, is said to become latent " (Sir Wm. Thomson). Latent heat is the quantity of heat which must be communicated to (unit mass oft)... | |
| Railroads - 1896 - 494 pages
...in these simple questions and many years ago wrote a full and very terse definition of latent heat, "Heat given to a substance and warming it, is said to be sensible heat, sensible in the substance; heat given to a substance and not warming it is said to become latent."... | |
| William Henry Booth - Feed-water purification - 1906 - 348 pages
...work by means of the change of volume which it produces in bodies acted upon by it." — (Kipper.) " Heat, given to a substance and warming it, is said...substance and not warming it, is said to become latent." — (Sir W. Thomson.) " Latent Heat, is the quantity of heat which must be communicated to a body in... | |
| Alexander Ritchie Leask - Marine engines - 1922 - 460 pages
...defined as follows : " Heat given to a substance, and warming it, is said to be sensible or apparent in the substance." " Heat given to a substance, and not warming it, is said to become latent." Latent heat, then, is the quantity of heat which must be communicated to unit mass of a body in a given... | |
| Alexander Ritchie Leask - Marine engines - 1922 - 448 pages
...at atmospheric pressure is 966.6 British thermal units. These terms have been defined as follows : " Heat given to a substance, and warming it, is said to be sensible or apparent in the substance." " Heat given to a substance, and not wanning it, is said to become latent."... | |
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