XLVII. Experiments and observations on the compressibility of water and some other fluids
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- 31 December 1764
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
- Vol. 54, 261-262
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1764.0045
Abstract
In a paper lately laid before the Royal Society, I not only related the experiments by which I found water to be commpressible, but also those by which I discovered how much a given weight would compress it when in a temperate degree of heat. By similar experiments made since, it appears that water has the remarkable property of being more compressible in winter than in summer; which is contrary to what I have observed both in spirit of wine and oil of olives: these fluids are (as one would expect water to be) more compressible when expanded by heat, and less so when contracted by cold.Keywords
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