XVIII. The Bakerian Lecture .—On the continuity of the gaseous and liquid states of matter
In 1822 M. Cagniard de la Tour observed that certain liquids, such as ether, alcohol, and water, when heated in hermetically sealed glass tubes, became apparently reduced to vapour in a space from twice to four times the original volume of the liquid. He also made a few numerical determinations of t...
| Published in: | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
1869
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1869.0021 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1869.0021 |