Lectures on Chemistry: Including Its Applications in the Arts, and the Analysis of Organic and Inorganic CompoundsSimpkin, Marshall, 1843 - 505 oldal |
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208. oldal - ... that whenever two volumes of air of different temperatures, are mixed together, each being previously saturated with vapour, a precipitation of a portion of vapour must ensue, in consequence of the mean temperature not being' able to support the mean quantity of vapour. This...
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