| Royal Society (Great Britain) - Mathematics - 1803 - 606 pages
...pressure. But, as the spaces occupied by every gas are inversely as the compressing force, it follows, that water takes up, of gas condensed by one, two,...atmospheres, a quantity which, ordinarily compressed, would be equal to twice, tbrice, &c. the volume absorbed under the common pressure of the atmosphere. By... | |
| Industrial arts - 1803 - 548 pages
...pressure. But, as the spaces occupied by every gas are inversely as the compressing force, it follows, that water takes up, of gas condensed by one, two, or more additional atmospheres, a quantity u/tich, ordinarily compressed, would be equal, to twice, thrice, Kc. the volume absorbed under the... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1804 - 620 pages
...pressure. 'But, as the spaces occupied by every gas are inversely as the compressing force, it follows, that water takes up, of gas condensed by one, two,...atmospheres, a quantity which, ordinarily compressed, would be equal to twice, thrice, &c. the volume absorbed under the common pressure of the atmosphere. By... | |
| Science - 1838 - 482 pages
...equivalent to about y'jth of the entire bulk absorbablc at 55° Fahr. In investigating the absorption of the same gas under varying pressures, Dr Henry...atmospheres, a- quantity which, ordinarily compressed, would be equal to twice, thrice, &c. the volume absorbed under the common pressure of the atmosphere." This... | |
| Science - 1838 - 482 pages
...equivalent to about 1'jth of the entire bulk absorbable at 56° Fahr. In investigating the absorption of the same gas under varying pressures, Dr Henry...atmospheres, a quantity which, ordinarily compressed, would be equal to twice, thrice, &c. the volume absorbed under the common pressure of the atmosphere." This... | |
| 1838 - 524 pages
...elaborate experiments on the quantity of gases absorbed by water at different temperatures, and he arrived at the simple law, ' that water takes up of...atmospheres, a quantity which ordinarily compressed would be equal to twice, thrice, &c., the volume absorbed under the common pressure of the attnosphere.'... | |
| 1838 - 524 pages
...experiments on the quantity of gases absorbed by water at different temperatures, and he arrived at tlio simple law, 'that water takes up of gas condensed...atmospheres, a quantity which ordinarily compressed would be equal to twice, thrice, &P., the volume absorbed under the common pressure of the atmosphere.' In... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 524 pages
...elaborate experiments on the quantity of gases absorbed by water at different temperatures, and he arrived at the simple law, ' that water takes up of...atmospheres, a quantity which ordinarily compressed would be equal to twice, thrire, &c., the volume absorbed under the common pressure of the atmosphere.' In... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 808 pages
...experiments on the quantity of gases absorbed by water at different temperatures, and he established the law " that water takes up of gas condensed by one,...two, or more additional atmospheres, a quantity which would be equal to twice, thrice, &c., the volume absorbed under the common pressure of the atmosphere."... | |
| William Walker - Scientists - 1862 - 256 pages
...different temperature and under different pressures, the result of which was the establishment of the law that " water takes up of gas, condensed by one,...two or more additional atmospheres, a quantity which would be equal to twice, thrice, &c. the volume absorbed under the ordinary pressure of the atmosphere.... | |
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