 Saussure assumes two fixed terms, one of which is the extreme of humidity, and the other that of dryness : he determines the first by placing the hygrometer under a glass receiver, the whole interior surface of which he had completely moistened with water...  An Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy - Page 154by René Just Haüy - 1807Full view - About this book
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 700 pages
...air being saturated by this water, acts by its humidity upon the hair to lengthen it. He moisten' cd anew the interior of the receiver, as often as it...extend itself. To obtain the contrary limit of extreme dryness, the same philosopher made use of a bot and well-dried receiver, under which he included the... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...completely moistened with water ; the air being saturated by this water, acts by its humidity npon the hair to lengthen it. He moistened anew the interior...that the term of extreme humidity was attained, when, 1>> a longer continuance under the receiver, the hair ceased to extend itself. To obtain the contrary... | |
 | James Smith - 1815 - 942 pages
...lengthen it. He repeated the moistening' of the interior of the receiver, as often as it was necesnry, and he knew that the term of extreme humidity was...when, by a longer continuance under the receiver, l he hair ceased to extend itself. To obtain the contrary lim it of rxtrrme dryness, the same philosopher... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 394 pages
...S;iussure assumes two fixed terms, one of which is the extreme of humidity, and the other that of dryness : he determines the first by placing the hygrometer...longer continuance under the receiver, the hair ceased lo extend itself. ToTobtain the contrary limit of extreme dryness, the same philosopher made use of... | |
 | Friedrich Christian Accum - 1824 - 386 pages
...Saussure assumes two fixed terms, one of which is the extreme of humidity, and the other that of dryness : he determines the first by placing the hygrometer...extend itself. To obtain the contrary limit of extreme dryness, the same philosopher made use of a hot and well-dried receiver, under which he included the... | |
 | James Smith (author of the Panorama of science and art.) - 1859 - 924 pages
...saturated by this water, acts by its humidity upon the hair to lengthen it. He repeated the moistening of the interior of the receiver, as often as it was necessary,...extend itself. To obtain the contrary limit of extreme dryness, the same philosopher made use of a hot and well-dried receiver, under which he included the... | |
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