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Page 82
... vapour on the colder sum- mits in the form of cloud , and its breaking up and disappearance when drifted into the warmer valleys . In endeavouring to account for these phenomena , he was led to those meteorological inquiries with which ...
... vapour on the colder sum- mits in the form of cloud , and its breaking up and disappearance when drifted into the warmer valleys . In endeavouring to account for these phenomena , he was led to those meteorological inquiries with which ...
Page 83
... tells his corre- * This simplest of all modes of determining the volume of vapour in the atmosphere was thrown aside by Dalton when he became acquainted with Leroy's method . spondent : " I am engaged at present in observing.
... tells his corre- * This simplest of all modes of determining the volume of vapour in the atmosphere was thrown aside by Dalton when he became acquainted with Leroy's method . spondent : " I am engaged at present in observing.
Page 90
... vapour are not the effects of chemical affinities , but that aqueous vapour always exists as a fluid , sui generis , diffused among the rest of the aerial fluids " ( pp . 127 , 128 ) ; and on the following page , " that it may be ...
... vapour are not the effects of chemical affinities , but that aqueous vapour always exists as a fluid , sui generis , diffused among the rest of the aerial fluids " ( pp . 127 , 128 ) ; and on the following page , " that it may be ...
Page 93
... vapour . Thunder usually takes place in summer , and at such times as the air is highly charged with vapour ; when it happens in winter , the barometer is low , and , consequently , ac- cording to our theory of the variation of the ...
... vapour . Thunder usually takes place in summer , and at such times as the air is highly charged with vapour ; when it happens in winter , the barometer is low , and , consequently , ac- cording to our theory of the variation of the ...
Page 134
... . After an interval of nearly five years ( his essay on Colour - blindness being read in October 1794 ) , Dalton made his second communication to the Philosophical His Theory of Aqueous Vapour . 135 Society , entitled 134 John Dalton .
... . After an interval of nearly five years ( his essay on Colour - blindness being read in October 1794 ) , Dalton made his second communication to the Philosophical His Theory of Aqueous Vapour . 135 Society , entitled 134 John Dalton .
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Page 136 - ... 3. The quantity of any liquid evaporated in the open air is directly as the force of steam from such liquid at its temperature, all other circumstances being the same.