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Page 22 - CONTENTS. — Temperature. — Expansion of Solids. — Liquids. — Gases. — Circulation and Convection.— Quantity of Heat ; Specific Heat.— Conductivity.— Forms of Energy ; Conservation; Mechanical Equivalent of Heat.— The Kinetic Theory.— Change of State; Liquid Vapour. — Critical Points. — Solids and Liquids. —Atmospheric Conditions.— Radiation. — Theory of Exchanges. — Radiation and Temperature. — Thermodynamics. — Isothermal and Adiabatic Changes.— Thermodynamics...
Page 14 - OARL OPPENHEIMER, PH.D., MD, Of the Physiological Institute at Erlangen. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY C. AINSWORTH MITCHELL, BA, FIC, FCS With Notes, and Additions by the Author, since the publication of the German Edition. "For wealth of detail, we have no small work on Toxines which equals the one under review.
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