Youth's Magazine,  3rd ser. 6 (1833), 164–66.

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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