The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... pressure were not distinguishable from the expansive and contractive effects of heat and cold , and it became an efficient measure of temperature only when Rinieri , in 1646 , introduced the improvement of hermetically sealing the ...
... pressure were not distinguishable from the expansive and contractive effects of heat and cold , and it became an efficient measure of temperature only when Rinieri , in 1646 , introduced the improvement of hermetically sealing the ...
Page 41
... pressure between folds of bibulous tannic acid ; 3 and in pyrosis , diarrhoea , some forms of paper , and purified by dissolving in boiling water , by re- dysentery , and tabes and rickets , and atonic states of the crystallization at ...
... pressure between folds of bibulous tannic acid ; 3 and in pyrosis , diarrhoea , some forms of paper , and purified by dissolving in boiling water , by re- dysentery , and tabes and rickets , and atonic states of the crystallization at ...
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... pressure . Year . Rein Fall . ature . ature . Highest Lowest Mean Temper- Temper- Temper- ature . Mean Bar . Pressure . 1875 46.6 in . 98.5 ° 24 ° € 9.6 ° 1876 70.59 30 063 in . 970 40 ° 70 90 30.050 1877 42.99 960 30 ° 68.7 ° 30.073 ...
... pressure . Year . Rein Fall . ature . ature . Highest Lowest Mean Temper- Temper- Temper- ature . Mean Bar . Pressure . 1875 46.6 in . 98.5 ° 24 ° € 9.6 ° 1876 70.59 30 063 in . 970 40 ° 70 90 30.050 1877 42.99 960 30 ° 68.7 ° 30.073 ...
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... pressure of 200 b per square inch . At Bloomfield , Ontario co . , New York , there is a spring which yields daily no less than 800,000 feet of gas of an illumin- ating power equal to 14 candles . The city of East Liverpool ( Ohio ) is ...
... pressure of 200 b per square inch . At Bloomfield , Ontario co . , New York , there is a spring which yields daily no less than 800,000 feet of gas of an illumin- ating power equal to 14 candles . The city of East Liverpool ( Ohio ) is ...
Page 90
... pressure as it rises in pipes , which pressure facilitates its distribution , and it is much easier to control than to beget pressure . In the planning of works , regard must be given to economy of space and to labour - saving ...
... pressure as it rises in pipes , which pressure facilitates its distribution , and it is much easier to control than to beget pressure . In the planning of works , regard must be given to economy of space and to labour - saving ...
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