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4. On the Compressibility of Water

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

W. J. Macquorn Rankine Esq., CE.
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The results of the experiments of M. Grassi on the above subject (Comptes Rendus XIX.) follow sensibly this law.

The compressibility of water is inversely proportional to the density, multiplied by the temperature as measured from the absolute zero of a perfect-gas thermometer, viz.:—a point 274°·6 below the ordinary zero of the centigrade scale, and 462°·28 below that of Fahrenheit's scale.

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Proceedings 1850-51
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 3 , 1857 , pp. 58 - 59
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1857

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