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IN reply to a very interesting letter on this subject recently published in NATURE (vol. xxiii. p. 504) by Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, I wish to express my views of the theoretical and practical possibility of the experiment of Dr. Carnelley. I wish to start from some well-known principles accepted by everybody acquainted with the mechanical theory of heat and its applications. According to these principles the volume “v” (and also the total amount of internal energy) of water can be expressed as a function of its pressure “p” and temperature “t”; v=f(p,t). The form of this function, which we need not discuss here, will change with the state of aggregation, so that we shall have three different equations expressing the volumes of water in the solid, liquid, and gaseous form.
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PETTERSSON, O. Hot Ice. Nature 24, 167–169 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024167b0
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