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Reflections on the motive power of heat

Note 53 — IV.[34] CARNOT’S THEORY OF THE MOTIVE POWER OF HEAT.[35] WITH NUMERICAL RESULTS DEDUCED FROM REGNAULT’S EXPERIMENTS ON STEAM.[36]

Robert Henry Thurston translation

It appears that the vol. of 1 kilog. must be 1.69076 according to the data here assumed.

The density of saturated steam at 100° is taken as ¹⁄₁₆₉₃.5 of that of water at its maximum. Rankine takes it as ¹⁄₁₆₉₆.

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