 Fah. it is not necessary to try whether it will burn, but merely to collect it in a proper vessel, by which we gain the additional advantage that we may measure the quantity of the vapor, while none of it can be lost by air-currents incidentally passing...  Reports and Awards ... - Page 161by United States Centennial Commission - 1878Full view - About this book
 | John Yeats - Commerce - 1871 - 498 pages
...would be supported in the same manner, but to a proportionately less height. He therefore procured a glass tube, closed at one end and open at the other, and having filled it with mercury, inverted it in a vessel containing the same fluid. The mercury immediately... | |
 | United States Centennial Commission - Centennial Exhibition - 1880 - 798 pages
...kerosene or other preparation from petroleum gives off a vapor at the standard temperature of I IO° Fah. it is not necessary to try whether it will burn,...finger, inverts it in a vessel with water warmed to I IO° by mixing hot and cold water, and kept at that temperature by occasionally adding hot water. Any... | |
 | United States Centennial Commission - Centennial Exhibition - 1880 - 808 pages
...vapor at the standard temperature of 110° Fah. it is not necessary to try •whether it will burrt, but merely to collect it in a proper vessel, by which...finger, inverts it in a vessel with water warmed to I IO° by mixing hot and cold water, and kept at that temperature by occasionally adding hot water. Any... | |
 | Marc Lange - Science - 2000 - 365 pages
..."parcel of air" at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its volume. Boyle took a curved glass tube, closed at one end and open at the other, and poured in a quantity of mercury, entrapping some air in the closed end. He continued adding mercury... | |
 | John Yeats - Commerce - 1887 - 578 pages
...would be supported in the same manner, but to a proportionately less height. He therefore procured a glass tube, closed at one end and open at the other, and having filled it with mercury, inverted it in a vessel containing the same fluid. The mercury immediately... | |
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