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Hope apparatus function |
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Answer» apparatus is a glass cylinder encircled with a TROUGH half-way up to CONTAIN a freezing mixture. Holes in the cylinder at the top and the bottom allow thermometers to be inserted into the water to sample its temperature. After a sufficient length of time the more dense water COLLECTS at the bottom at a temperature of 4°C. The REFERENCE below GIVES graphs of Hope's experiments (in his paper he only gave tables), plus additional experiments run by the author in 1981. REFERENCE: Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "The Maximum Density of Water", Phys. Teach., 23, 474-477 (1985) |
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