| Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (comte de Chanteloup) - 1807 - 360 pages
...results, that the caloric is absorbed, and produces no thermometrical effect, whenever a body passes from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state. The caloric absorbed in all cases again makes its appearance as heat, with its whole •thermometrical... | |
| Popular educator - 1854 - 922 pages
...expand or dilate, that is to assume a larger volume; then, to change their state, that is, to pass from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state. All bodies are expanded by the action of caloric. The most expansible bodies are the gases ; the next... | |
| Thomas Turner Tate - 1855 - 442 pages
...latent, or a certain quantity of latent heat is evolved and becomes free. Thus, when a body passes from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state, a certain quantity of free caloric is absorbed ; and, on the contrary, when a body passes from the... | |
| Thomas Tate - 1858 - 540 pages
...becomes latent, or a certain quantity of latent heat u evolved and becomes free. Thus, when a body passes from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous itate, a certain quantity of free caloric is absorbed ; and, on the contrary, when a body passes from... | |
| 1860 - 364 pages
...to expect that an aqueo-icy mass, a glacier, like products of fusion in general, as they pass slowly from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the solid, or play lazily between them, or hang permanently on the confines of both, or consist of the... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 pages
...it requires a larger qua«tity of heat to raise it to a given temperature. ЛУаеп matter passée from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the aeriform state, examples are to be found of latent ktat. In these processes à large quantity of heat... | |
| Adolphe Ganot - 1865 - 518 pages
...less than that of air. VI. — CHANGE OP STATE OP BODIES BY THE ACTION OF HEAT. Fusion. 816. It has been stated that heat not only causes bodies to expand,...solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gascous state. When a body passes from a solid to a liquid state, it ia said to melt, or fuse, and... | |
| Adolphe Ganot, William Guy Peck - 1871 - 510 pages
...less than that of air. [.— CJIANGK OK STATE OF 1)001 KB HY 'TUB ACTION OF II BAT. Fusion, It has been stated that heat not only causes bodies to expand,...When a body passes from a solid to a liquid state, it k said to melt, or fuse, and the act of changing state in this case is called fusion. If a melted body... | |
| Balfour Stewart - 1873 - 394 pages
...when the vapour is again condensed. 241. Freezing Mixtures and Apparatus.—We thus see how in ihe change from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state, a large amount of energy of molecular motion is transformed into energy of position. Sometimes this... | |
| William Lees - 1873 - 150 pages
...of the absence of extremes in an island climate."* 116. Latent Heat.—During the passage of a body from the solid to the liquid state, or from the liquid to the gaseous state, its temperature remains constant, whatever be the intensity of the heating source. The heat which the... | |
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