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... fluid , condensed around the molecules of matter , and radiating constantly from one part of it to another . But the later discoveries of the Polarization of Heat , and of its equivalence with mechanical force , have almost entirely ...
... fluid , condensed around the molecules of matter , and radiating constantly from one part of it to another . But the later discoveries of the Polarization of Heat , and of its equivalence with mechanical force , have almost entirely ...
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Thomas Rawson Birks. distinct and separate fluid . All these theories , of two electric fluids , a magnetic fluid , and a fluid of heat , are not only fragmentary , but divergent , and in their results contradictory to each other ...
Thomas Rawson Birks. distinct and separate fluid . All these theories , of two electric fluids , a magnetic fluid , and a fluid of heat , are not only fragmentary , but divergent , and in their results contradictory to each other ...
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... fluids , which have been con- jecturally proposed , each for one limited class of pheno- mena ; the two electricities , the fluid of heat , or caloric , and the magnetic fluid . The phenomena of optics seem to compel the admission of a ...
... fluids , which have been con- jecturally proposed , each for one limited class of pheno- mena ; the two electricities , the fluid of heat , or caloric , and the magnetic fluid . The phenomena of optics seem to compel the admission of a ...
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... fluid , of caloric , electricity , or magnetism , ought to be recognised , until it can be proved that the action ... fluids , as have been often proposed , repels thoughtful students , and makes them ready to question the existence of ...
... fluid , of caloric , electricity , or magnetism , ought to be recognised , until it can be proved that the action ... fluids , as have been often proposed , repels thoughtful students , and makes them ready to question the existence of ...
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... fluids is as the square of the velocity of vibration . Hence the logarithm of the ethereal pressure , in grains per square inch , 17.09785 , or 125270 billions of grains . = The tenacity of a square inch bar of steel is about 134,000 lb ...
... fluids is as the square of the velocity of vibration . Hence the logarithm of the ethereal pressure , in grains per square inch , 17.09785 , or 125270 billions of grains . = The tenacity of a square inch bar of steel is about 134,000 lb ...
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Page 3 - I frame no hypotheses: for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis ; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
Page 37 - It seems possible to account for all the phenomena of heat, if it be supposed that in solids the particles are in a constant state of vibratory motion, the particles of the hottest bodies moving with the greatest velocity...