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... heat , particularly as it is doubtful whether in passing through a va- cuum , or very attenuated medium , it would be possible for the caloric to escape , not to say that it might acquire a fresh accumulation of heat , by passing ...
... heat , particularly as it is doubtful whether in passing through a va- cuum , or very attenuated medium , it would be possible for the caloric to escape , not to say that it might acquire a fresh accumulation of heat , by passing ...
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... heat and diminished by cold , and that according to several very accurate experiments , at the rate of about one - 435th part for every degree of heat of Fahrenheit's thermometer . AIR - Gun , a pneumatic machine , which expels bullets ...
... heat and diminished by cold , and that according to several very accurate experiments , at the rate of about one - 435th part for every degree of heat of Fahrenheit's thermometer . AIR - Gun , a pneumatic machine , which expels bullets ...
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... heat may be produced by attrition . That camphire will not take fire ; and that gunpowder , though some of the grains of a heap of it be kindled by a burning- glass , will not give fire to the con- tiguous grains . That glow - worms ...
... heat may be produced by attrition . That camphire will not take fire ; and that gunpowder , though some of the grains of a heap of it be kindled by a burning- glass , will not give fire to the con- tiguous grains . That glow - worms ...
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... heat ) , as the degrees of the mean tem- perature are more or less than 31 ° ; and the last number will be the altitude in fathoms . Exam . - If the heights of the barometer at the bottom and top of a hill are 29.37 and 26.59 inches ...
... heat ) , as the degrees of the mean tem- perature are more or less than 31 ° ; and the last number will be the altitude in fathoms . Exam . - If the heights of the barometer at the bottom and top of a hill are 29.37 and 26.59 inches ...
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... heat for the greatest where it begins to have the effect heights which we can reach , is of bending the rays of light . Now not far from uniform ; but that the Kepler , and after him La Hire , rate for any particular case must computed ...
... heat for the greatest where it begins to have the effect heights which we can reach , is of bending the rays of light . Now not far from uniform ; but that the Kepler , and after him La Hire , rate for any particular case must computed ...
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