Table Of Temperature
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Table Of Temperature
Degree of Fahr. | |
2,786.......... | Cast iron melts (Daniell). |
1,996.......... | Copper melts (Daniell). |
1,947.......... | Gold melts. |
1,873.......... | Silver melts (Daniell). |
1,750.......... | Brass (containing 25% of zinc) melts (Daniell). |
1,000.......... | Iron, bright cherry red (Poillet). |
980.......... | Red heat, visible in daylight (Daniell). |
941.......... | Zinc begins to burn (Daniell). |
773.......... | Zinc melts (Daniell). |
644.......... | Mercury boils (Daniell), 662 (Graham). |
640.......... | Sulphuric acid boils (Magrignac), 620 (Graham). |
630.......... | Whale oil boils (Graham). |
617.......... | Pure lead melts (Rudberg). |
600.......... | Linseed oil boils. |
518.......... | Bismuth melts (Gmelin). |
442.......... | Tin melts (Crichton). |
380.......... | Arsenious acid volatilizes. |
356.......... | Metallic arsenic sublimes. |
315.......... | Oil of turpentine boils (Kaure). |
302.......... | Etherification ends. |
257.......... | Saturated sol. of sal ammoniac boils (Taylor). |
256.......... | Saturated sol. of acetate of soda boils. |
239.......... | Sulphur melts (Miller), 226 (Fownes). |
238.......... | Saturated sol. of nitre boils. |
221.......... | Saturated sol. of salt boils (Paris Codex). |
220.......... | Saturated sol. of alum, carb. soda, and sulph. zinc, boil. |
218.......... | Saturated sol. of chlorate and prussiate potash, boil. |
216.......... | Saturated sol. of sulph. iron, sulph. copper, nitrate of lead, boil. |
214.......... | Saturated sol. of acetate lead, sulph. and bitartrate potash, boil. |
213 or (213.5). | Water begins to boil in glass. |
212.......... | Water boils in metal, barometer at 30°. |
Degree of Fahr. | |
211.......... | Alloy of 5 bismuth, 3 tin, 2 lead, melts. |
201.......... | Alloy of 8 bismuth, 5 lead, 3 tin, melts (Kane). |
207.......... | Sodium melts (Regnault). |
185.......... | Nitric acid 1.52 begins to boil. |
180 (about).. . | Starch forms a gelatinous compound with water. |
176.......... | Rectified spirit boils, benzol distils. |
173.......... | Alcohol (sp. gr. .796 to .800) boils. |
151.......... | Beeswax melts (Kane), 142 (Lepage). |
150.......... | Pyroxylic spirit boils (Scan-Ian). |
145.......... | White of egg begins to coagulate. |
141.8........ | Chloroform, and ammonia of .945, boil. |
132.......... | Acetone (pyroacetic spirit) boils (Kane). |
122.......... | Mutton suet and styracin melt. |
116.......... | Bisulphuret of carbon boils (Graham). |
115.......... | Pure tallow melts (Lepage), 92 (Thomson). |
112.......... | Spermaceti and stearin of lard melt. |
111.......... | Phosphorus melts (Miller). |
98.......... | Temperature of the blood. |
95.......... | Ether (.720) boils. |
95.......... | Carbolic acid crystals become an oily liquid. |
88.......... | Acetous fermentation ceases, water boils in vacuo. |
77.......... | Vinous ferm. ends, acetous ferm. begins. |
64.4...... .. | Oil of anise liquefies. |
59.......... | Gay Lussac's Alcoometre graduated at. |
55.......... | Sirups to be kept at. |
30 (about). .. | Olive oil becomes partially solid. |
32.......... | Water freezes. |
5.......... | Cold produced by snow 2 parts and salt 1 part. |
- 37.9............ | Mercury freezes. |
- Cooley.
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