10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIATHERMOUS»
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The calorific rays which pass through one or more diathermous substances
undergo a modification which renders them more or less proper for transmission
through other diathermous substances. Thus, by comparing the results obtained
by ...
The calorilic rays which pass through one or more diathermous substances
undergo a modification which renders them more or less proper for transmission
through other diathermous substances. Thus, by comparing the results obtained
by ...
3
The Unity of Creation: Or the First Principles of Physiography
Were oceanic circulation stopped the globe would not be habitable. 26. A body
which allows radiant heat to pass freely through it is said to be diathermous. One
which opposes the passage is said to be adiathermous.* 27. Bodies which can ...
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly, 1878
4
A manual of steam-boilers: their design, construction, and ...
Diathermous substances permit the heat-rays to pass through, as transparent
substances admit light-rays : but diathermous bodies are not necessarily equally,
even if at all, transparent ; and all substances are more diathermous to some rays
...
Robert Henry Thurston, 1888
5
Radio, Miracle of the 20th Century ...: A Story of Human ...
When the vibrations of the light-ether reach the surface of a body they are partly
reflected and partly absorbed, or transformed into heat energy. If the substance
be diathermous most of them pass on and are reflected back from the inner ...
Frederick E. Drinker, James G. Lewis, 1922
6
Elements of Medical Chemistry
45. Transmission. — The laws of the transmission of radiant heat accord closely
with those of light. Bodies which allow heal to pass through them are termed
diathermous (Gr. dia, through, and thermaind, to heat). There is no direct relation
...
Benjamin Howard Rand, 1871
7
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
The diathermous forenoon >here. Diastylis qnadrispinosa. hand to schizopods,
on the other to oopepods, and exhibiting in some respects a persistence of a
larval type of the higher Crustacea. They are Thoracostraca or Podophthalmia
with a ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1906
8
Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
Also, diathermic, diathermous. diathermal envelope Thermodynamics, a surface
that serves to enclose and isolate a thermodynamic system, yet allows heat
transfers across its boundary. Also, diathermous envelope. diathermal wall ...
Christopher G. Morris, 1992
9
The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal
In the case of bodies which are partially diathermous, that is to say, which behave
with respect to heat, or at least heat of certain degrees of refrangibility, in the
same way in which semi-opake bodies behave with respect to light, or rather in ...
10
The Quarterly Journal of Education
Others, for want of an expression already in use, prefer to employ the word
transthermous, and others, more consistently, the term diathermous, calling rock-
salt a diathermous body. This and similar expressions, which have very recently
been ...
