The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... temperature generally ranges between 75 ° and 80 ° ; but the thermometer falls to 60 ° at a depth of little more than 100 fathoms , the temperature of this belt of water , as will be hereafter shown , being kept down by the continual ...
... temperature generally ranges between 75 ° and 80 ° ; but the thermometer falls to 60 ° at a depth of little more than 100 fathoms , the temperature of this belt of water , as will be hereafter shown , being kept down by the continual ...
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... temperature and greatest rate of flow , its velocity being greatest where it is pressed on laterally by the Arctic Current , so that a rate of 4 miles per hour is occasionally observed . Capt . Nares estimates the depth of the Stream in ...
... temperature and greatest rate of flow , its velocity being greatest where it is pressed on laterally by the Arctic Current , so that a rate of 4 miles per hour is occasionally observed . Capt . Nares estimates the depth of the Stream in ...
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... temperature , it is replaced by the uprising of a deeper stratum having nearly its original temperature . But as the stream spreads out superficially , its superheated stratum becomes proportionally thinner , and will consequently be ...
... temperature , it is replaced by the uprising of a deeper stratum having nearly its original temperature . But as the stream spreads out superficially , its superheated stratum becomes proportionally thinner , and will consequently be ...
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... temperature diminishing from west to east ) ; whilst in Ireland the isotherms seem to envelope the islands in their folds , which increase in warmth from the centre of the island to its sea - board . So in Norway the isothermal lines ...
... temperature diminishing from west to east ) ; whilst in Ireland the isotherms seem to envelope the islands in their folds , which increase in warmth from the centre of the island to its sea - board . So in Norway the isothermal lines ...
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... temperature ranging from 40 ° downwards , in the eastern basin , to a bottom - temperature of 3510 , whilst in the western basin - apparently under the influence of the Antarctic underflow - the bottom - temperature sinks to 34 ° 4. A ...
... temperature ranging from 40 ° downwards , in the eastern basin , to a bottom - temperature of 3510 , whilst in the western basin - apparently under the influence of the Antarctic underflow - the bottom - temperature sinks to 34 ° 4. A ...
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