 | Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - 1898 - 124 Seiten
...all bodies at the same temperature), or any arbitrary function of Carnot's function, may be denned as temperature, and is therefore the foundation of...that of saturated vapour of water under the pressure 29.9218 inches of mercury in the latitude 45°, and call the difference of these temperatures any number... | |
 | 1898 - 124 Seiten
...may be defined as temperature, and is therefore the foundation of an absolute system of therrnometry. We may now adopt this suggestion with great advantage,...that of saturated vapour of water under the pressure 29.9218 inches of mercury in the latitude 45°, and call the difference of these temperatures any number... | |
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... temperature, and emits heat only in another locality kept at a uniform temperature, the temperatures of these localities are proportional to the quantities of heat taken in or emitted at them in a complete cycle of the operations. To fix on a unit... 