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Propagation of Heat in Liquids ON September 14, 1839, the Athenœum said: “The experiment of M. Despretz concerning the propagation of heat in liquids has been attended with the most satisfactory results. From these it appears that a liquid column being heated at the upper part, the heat is propagated according to the same laws as those belonging to solid bodies; that the temperature decreases from the axis to the surface, and from the surface to the wall of the side. The depth to which solar heat penetrates in a given time may be easily calculated by these data in large lakes and isolated seas”. The French physicist César Mansuète Despretz, well-known for his studies of heat, was born in 1792 and died on March 15, 1863.
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 144, 488 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144488a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144488a0