Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volumen 2Harper & Brothers, 1839 |
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... cold . Hence the cold air on the tops of nountains , and snow on some of them all the year , even in the torrid zone . Hence hail in summer . If the atmosphere were , all of it ( both above and below ) , always of the same temper as to cold ...
... cold . Hence the cold air on the tops of nountains , and snow on some of them all the year , even in the torrid zone . Hence hail in summer . If the atmosphere were , all of it ( both above and below ) , always of the same temper as to cold ...
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... cold , even to freez- ing , might be produced by evaporation . I have not had leisure to repeat and examine more than the first and easiest of them , viz .: wet the ball of a thermometer by a feather dipped in spirits of wine , which ...
... cold , even to freez- ing , might be produced by evaporation . I have not had leisure to repeat and examine more than the first and easiest of them , viz .: wet the ball of a thermometer by a feather dipped in spirits of wine , which ...
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... cold is nothing more than the ab- sence of heat or fire . Now if the quantity of fire before contained or diffused in the snow and salt was expelled in the uniting of the two matters , it must be driven away either through the air or ...
... cold is nothing more than the ab- sence of heat or fire . Now if the quantity of fire before contained or diffused in the snow and salt was expelled in the uniting of the two matters , it must be driven away either through the air or ...
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