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" As these columns rise, their upper parts will come under less pressure, and the air will therefore expand ; as it expands, it will grow colder about one degree and a quarter for every hundred yards of its ascent, as... "
The Philosophy of Storms - Page xii
by James Pollard Espy - 1841 - 552 pages
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Gawthrop's journal of literature, science, and arts

206 pages
...by experiments on the Nephelescope. The ascending columns will carry up with them the aqueous vapour which they contain, and, if they rise high enough,...from diminished pressure will condense some of this vapour into cloud ; for it is known that cloud is formed in the receiver of an air pump when the air...
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Report of the Annual Meeting, Issue 10

British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1841 - 774 pages
...experiments with the Nephelescope. The ascending columns will carry up with them the aqueous vapour which they contain, and, if they rise high enough,...from diminished pressure will condense some of this vapour into cloud ; for it is known that cloud is formed in the receiver of an air-pump when the air...
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 10

British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1841 - 776 pages
...experiments with the Nephelescope. The ascending columns will carry up with them the aqueous vapour which they contain, and, if they rise high enough,...from diminished pressure will condense some of this vapour into cloud ; for it is known that cloud is formed in the receiver of an air-pump when the air...
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The Dynamical Theory of the Formation of the Earth, Volume 2

Archibald Tucker Ritchie - Cosmogony - 1850 - 678 pages
...diminished pressure will condense some of the vapour into clouds ; for it is known that clouds are formed in the receiver of an air pump when the air is suddenly withdrawn. The height to which the air will have to ascend before it be cold enough to form clouds is a variable quantity,...
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The Dynamical Theory of the Formation of the Earth, Volume 2

Archibald Tucker Ritchie - Cosmogony - 1850 - 648 pages
...is demonstrated on the ncphelescope. " The ascending columns will carry with them the aqueous vapour which they contain, and, if they rise high enough, the cold produced by expansion, in consequence of diminished pressure, will condense some of the vapour into cloud; for, it is known,...
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The Dial, Volume 1

Moncure Daniel Conway - Literature - 1860 - 786 pages
...quarter for every hundred yards of its ascent, as he demonstrated by experiments in the Nepheloscope. The ascending columns will carry up with them the...is known that cloud is formed in the receiver of an air-pump when the air is suddenly withdrawn. The distance to which the air will have to ascend before...
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The Creation: The Earth's Formation on Dynamical Principles in Accordance ...

Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1874 - 690 pages
...upmoving columns or streams will be formed "The ascending columns will carry with them the aqueous vapour which they contain, and, if they rise high enough, the cold produced by expansion, in consequence of diminished pressure, will condense some of the vapour into cloud The height to which...
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Meteorology at the Millennium

Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - Meteorology - 2002 - 360 pages
...expands, it will grow colder about one degree and a quarter for every one hundred yards of its ascent. The ascending columns will carry up with them the...expansion from diminished pressure will condense some of its vapor into cloud. A soon as cloud begins to form, the caloric of elasticity of the vapor or steam...
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Meteorology at the Millennium

Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - Meteorology - 2002 - 360 pages
...quarter for everyone hundred yards of its ascent. The ascending columns will carry1 up with them ihe aqueous vapor which they contain, and. if they rise...expansion from diminished pressure will condense some of its vapor into cloud, A soon as cloud begins to form, the caloric of elasticity of the vapor or steam...
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Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight Into Hurricane ...

David M. Toomey - History - 2002 - 332 pages
...expands it will grow colder, about one degree and a quarter for every hundred yards of its ascent. . . . The ascending columns will carry up with them the...they contain, and if they rise high enough, the cold . . . will condense some of this vapor into cloud." Espy's theory differed from Redfield's in every...
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