Author: United States Bureau Of StandardsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781391362939
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Excerpt from Thermal Properties of Petroleum Products The International centigrade scale adopted by the International Conference Of Weights and Measures at Paris in 1927 is realized in the temperature interval 0° to 660° C., by means of the resistance thermometer of pure platinum, standardized at the temperatures of melting ice (0° condensing steam (100° and condensing sulphur vapor all at standard atmospheric pressure. In accordance with common practice in the United States, 60° F. Is used here as the reference temperature for specifying the density and volume of petroleum products. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
