 1. Dilute a portion of nitric acid with an equal weight of water ; and, when the mixture has cooled, add to it a quantity of light fresh-fallen snow. On immersing the thermometer in the mixture, a very considerable reduction of temperature will be observed....  An Epitome of Chemistry: In Three Parts - Page 36by William Henry - 1808 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Redman Coxe, Thomas Cooper - Industrial arts - 1813 - 532 pages
...nitric acid, or of snow and common salt, both of which, in common language, produce intense cold.* 1. Dilute a portion of nitric acid with an equal weight...owing to the absorption, and intimate fixation, of the free caloric of the mixture, by the liquefying snow. 2. Mix quickly together equal weights of fresh-fallen... | |
 | William Henry - Chemistry - 1819 - 440 pages
...Fahrenheit; but if a greater degree of cold be applied to it, the salt separates in a concrete form. 1. Dilute a portion of nitric acid with an equal weight...owing to the absorption, and intimate fixation, of the free caloric of the mixture, by the liquefying snow. 3. Most neutral salts, also, during solution in... | |
 | William Henry - Chemistry - 1819 - 436 pages
...Fahrenheit ; but if a greater degree o! cold be applied to it, the salt separates in a concrete form. 1. Dilute a portion of nitric acid with an equal weight of water and, when the mixture hajatooled, add to it a quantity of light fresh fallen snow. On immersing the thermometer in the mixture,... | |
 | William Henry - Chemistry - 1823 - 682 pages
...and nitric acid, or of snow and common salt, both of which, in common language, produce intense cold. 1. Dilute a portion of nitric acid with an equal weight...owing to the absorption, and intimate fixation, of the free caloric of the mixture, by the liquefying snow. 2. Mix quickly together equal weights of fresh-fallen... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Pharmaceutical chemistry - 1825 - 644 pages
...cause of the liquefaction of the ice, it- is sometimes called caloric of fluidity. Exp. 43.—Dilute a portion of nitric acid with an equal weight of water; and add, as soon as the mixture has cooled, a quantity of light fresh-fallen snow. On immersing the thermometer... | |
 | Chemistry - 1826 - 652 pages
...economically applied to the purpose of cooling wine or water in hot climates, or where ice cannot be procured. Dilute a portion of nitric acid with an equal weight...owing to the absorption, and intimate fixation of the free caloric of the mixture by the liquefying snow. Mix quickly together equal weights of fresh-fallen... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 422 pages
...illustratire of the evolution or production of heat. 249. i. Dilute a portion of nitric acid with air equal weight of water; and when the mixture has cooled, add to it a quantity of light fresh • fallen snow. On immersing the thermometer in the mixture, a very considerable reduction of... | |
 | William Henry - Chemistry - 1831 - 626 pages
...Fahrenheit; but, if a greater decree of cold be applied to it, the qalt separates in a concrete form. 1. Dilute a portion of nitric acid with an equal weight...owing to the absorption and intimate fixation of the free caloric of the mixture by the liquefying snow. Voul. O 3. Most neutral salts, also, during solution... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 836 pages
...illustrative of the evolution or production of heat. 249. i. Diiute a portion of nitric acid with an i 'p il weight of water ; and when the mixture has cooled, add to it a quantity of light fresh fallen snow. On immersint; the'thermometer in the mixture, a very considerable reduction of temperature... | |
 | John White Webster - Chemistry - 1839 - 592 pages
...140° of heat disappeared, their effect being not to increase temperature, but to produce fluidity. Dilute a portion of nitric acid with an equal weight of water ; and, when the E*P' I. mixture has cooled, add to it a quantity of light fresh-fallen snow. On immersing the thermometer... | |
| |
