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I VENTURE, in referring to Dr. Lodge's letter of this week, to put before your readers the meaning of the remarks made on Dr. Carnelley's experiment at the Chemical Society by Prof. Ayrton, who is now away from England. I understood him to say that as Dr. Carnelley's hot ice is obviously in a condition which cannot be represented within the as yet known fundamental water surfaces, it is necessary to produce these surfaces beyond the places at which, hitherto, abrupt changes have been supposed to take place in them. He took as an instance the ice-water surface which has hitherto been assumed to stop at Prof. James Thomson's “triple point,” and showed that although Sir Wm. Thomson's experiments have proved that it is nearly plane for the stable state of water and ice, yet in the imaginary district beyond the triple point a change of latent heat might give such a change of curvature as to bring this surface into the hot-ice region.
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PERRY, J. Hot Ice. Nature 23, 288–289 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023288c0
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