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Faraday.
Fahr.
°
Atmospheres. Fahr.
°
Atmospheres. Fahr.
°
Atmospheres.
0 1.25  √ 38 .5 2.72 77 5.00
8 .5 1.5   √ 44 .5 3.00  √ 79 5.16
 √ 10 1.53  √ 48 3.17 83 5.50
15 1.72  √ 50 3.28 88 .3 6.00
 √ 20 1.89  √ 52 3.36  √ 93 .5 6.50
22 .8 2.00 54 .3 3.50  √ 95 6.64
 √ 27 2.20  √ 63 4.00 98 .4 7.00
 √ 32 2.37  √ 70 4.50  √ 103 7.50
34 .5 2.50  √ 74 4.79

Ammonia.—This body may be obtained as a solid, white, translucent, crystalline substance, melting at the temperature of 103° below 0°; at which point the solid substance is heavier than the liquid. In that state the pressure of its vapour must be very small.

Liquid ammonia at 60° was allowed to expand into ammoniacal gas at the same temperature; one volume of the liquid gave 1009.8 volumes of the gas, the barometer being at the pressure of 30.2 inches. If 100 cubic inches of ammoniacal gas be allowed to weigh 18.28 grains, it will give 184.6 grains as the weight of a cubic inch of liquid ammonia at 60°. Hence its specific gravity at that temperature will be 0.731. In the old experiments I found by another kind of process that its specific gravity was 0.76 at 50°.

The following is a table of the pressure of ammonia vapour, the marked results, as before, being those obtained by experiment:—

Fahr.
°
Atmospheres. Fahr.
°
Atmospheres. Fahr.
°
Atmospheres.
 √ 0 4.48  √ 41 5.10  √ 61 .3 7.00
0 .5 2.50  √ 44 5.36  √ 65 .6 7.50
 √ 9 .3 3.00  √ 45 5.45  √ 67 7.63
 √ 18 3.50 45 .8 5.50 69 .4 8.00
 √ 21 3.72  √ 49 5.83 73 8.50
25 .8 4.00  √ 51.4 6.00 76 .8 9.00
 √ 26 4.04  √ 52 6.10 80 9.50
 √ 32 4.44  √ 55 6.38  √ 83 10.00
 √ 33 4.50  √ 56 .5 6.50 85 10.30
39 .5 5.00  √ 60 6.90