On Fire [2/2]
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Genre: | Miscellaneous, Serial |
Subjects: | Heat, Chemistry |
Publications cited: | Berthollet 1804, 1: 163 , Parkes 1806, 39 |
Concerns the 'peculiar effects' of heat on combustible bodies and fluids. From the effect of heat on fluids, concludes that 'heat or caloric is a solid body, composed of particles which visibly act in the medium of water' (166). |
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