"Critical temperature" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... numerous applications of the laws of corresponding states have rendered highly important the determination of the critical constants which permit these states to be defined. In the case of homogeneous bodies the critical elements have a simple, clear, and precise sense; the critical temperature is that of the single isothermal line which presents a point of inflexion at a horizontal tangent; the critical pressure and the critical volume are the two co-ordinates ...
— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare
... below which an abrupt change from the gaseous to the liquid state takes place if the pressure is sufficiently high, is 37 deg. C., and the critical pressure, i.e., the pressure under which that change takes place at that temperature, is nearly 68 atmospheres. Below the critical temperature, a lower pressure than this effects liquefaction of the gas, i.e., at 13.5 deg. C. a pressure of 32.77 atmospheres, at 0 deg. C., 21.53 atmospheres (Ansdell, cf. Chapter XI.). These data are of comparatively ...
— Acetylene, The Principles Of Its Generation And Use • F. H. Leeds and W. J. Atkinson Butterfield |
