THE SPECIFIC HEAT OF MANGANESE FROM 16° TO 22° K

1940 ◽  
Vol 18a (5) ◽  
pp. 83-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. Elson ◽  
H. Grayson Smith ◽  
J. O. Wilhelm
Keyword(s):  
Specific Heat ◽  
Liquid Helium ◽  
Temperature Region ◽  
Liquid Hydrogen ◽  
Specific Heats ◽  
Atomic Heat

A calorimeter is described for routine measurements of specific heats in the temperature region of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium. It is designed so that samples can be interchanged without disturbing the calibration of the thermometer, or the water equivalent of the calorimeter. The calorimeter has been used to measure the specific heat of manganese from 16° to 22° K. It was found that the atomic heat of this metal is given by the formula[Formula: see text]

FIRST SOUND IN LIQUID HELIUM AT HIGH PRESSURES

1953 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 1156-1164 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. R. Atkins ◽  
R. A. Stasior
Keyword(s):  
Specific Heat ◽  
Liquid Helium ◽  
Carrier Frequency ◽  
High Pressures ◽  
Constant Pressure ◽  
Constant Density ◽  
Pulse Technique ◽  
Temperature Range ◽  
Specific Heats ◽  
First Sound

The velocity of ordinary sound in liquid helium has been measured in the temperature range from 1.2 °K. to 4.2 °K. at pressures up to 69 atm. A pulse technique was used with a carrier frequency of 12 Mc.p.s. Curves are given for the variation of velocity with temperature at constant pressure and also at constant density. There is no detectable discontinuity along the λ-curve. The results are used to discuss the ratio of the specific heats, the coefficient of expansion below 0.6 °K., and the specific heat above 3 °K.

scholarly journals Atomic specific heats between the boiling points of liquid nitrogen and hydrogen. I.—The mean atomic specific heats at 50° absolute of the elements a periodic function of the atomic weights

1913 ◽  
Vol 89 (609) ◽  
pp. 158-169 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Function ◽  
Specific Heat ◽  
Liquid Nitrogen ◽  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Liquid Hydrogen ◽  
Specific Heats ◽  
Boiling Points ◽  
Royal Institution ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
The Mean

A method of determining the specific heat of substances at low temperatures was described in a paper on “Studies with the Liquid Hydrogen and Air Calorimeter,” also in the abstract of a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution entitled“ Liquid Hydrogen Calorimetry,” where the apparatus then used is illustrated. Continuing the use of the same method, but with some modification of the apparatus, the investigation has been extended to a large number of inorganic and organic bodies. In this later series of experiments, the measurements of the specific heats of materials by the liquid hydrogen calorimeter were made over a range of temperature from boiling nitrogen to boiling hydrogen, a fall of temperature of some 57° Abs.

scholarly journals The specific heats of metals and the relation of specific heat to atomic weight. Part II

1903 ◽  
Vol 71 (467-476) ◽  
pp. 220-221 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Specific Heat ◽  
Atomic Weight ◽  
Absolute Zero ◽  
Nickel Steel ◽  
Pure Aluminium ◽  
Specific Heats ◽  
Nickel Cobalt ◽  
Weight Part ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Atomic Heat

The following values have been obtained for the mean specific heats, of pure aluminium, nickel, cobalt, silver, and platinum, within the several limits of temperature indicated: From these results the specific heats at successive temperatures on the absolute scale have been calculated, and it appears that the assumption of a constant atomic heat at absolute zero is untenable. The mean specific heat of a sample of nickel steel, containing 36 percent, of nickel and having remarkably small dilatation, was found to be as follows.

scholarly journals The atomic heat of bismuth at higher temperatures

1932 ◽  
Vol 136 (829) ◽  
pp. 243-250 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Properties ◽  
Specific Heat ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Thermal Capacity ◽  
Mechanical And Thermal Properties ◽  
Specific Heats ◽  
Air Temperatures ◽  
Metallic Bismuth ◽  
True Specific Heat ◽  
Atomic Heat

The thermal capacity of metallic bismuth has been investigated by a number of experimenters. Though the true specific heat from absolute zero up to air temperatures is known from measurements made with the vacuum calorimeter by Keesom and Ende, and by Anderson, from air temperatures up to the melting point we have only mean specific heats, determined over considerable ranges of temperature, while of the true specific heat of the liquid and its variation with temperature nothing reliable is known. In order to use a vacuum calorimeter at temperatures much above room temperature it is necessary to evolve a design employing materials which have satisfactory electrical, mechanical and thermal properties at the temperatures in question. Such a calorimeter has been successfully developed, and the present paper describes its construction and gives the results of measurements made by means of it on bismuth, over a temperature range of 30° to 370°C.

The specific heats of three paramagnetic salts at very low temperatures

1956 ◽  
Vol 237 (1210) ◽  
pp. 395-403 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Specific Heat ◽  
Absolute Temperature ◽  
Magnesium Nitrate ◽  
Paramagnetic Resonance ◽  
Specific Heats ◽  
Ammonium Alum ◽  
Relaxation Measurements ◽  
Ferric Ammonium ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Measured Specific Heat

The specific heats of three paramagnetic salts, neodymium magnesium nitrate, manganous ammonium sulphate and ferric ammonium alum, have been measured at temperatures below 1°K using the method of γ -ray heating. The temperature measurements were made in the first instance in terms of the magnetic susceptibilities of the salts, the relation of the susceptibility to the absolute temperature having been determined for each salt in earlier experiments. The γ -ray heatings gave the specific heat in arbitrary units. The absolute values of the specific heats were found by extrapolating the results of paramagnetic relaxation measurements at higher temperatures. The measured specific heat of neodymium magnesium nitrate is compared with the value calculated from paramagnetic resonance data, and good agreement is found.

scholarly journals The liquefaction of helium by an adiabatic method

1934 ◽  
Vol 147 (860) ◽  
pp. 189-211 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Helium ◽  
High Pressures ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Liquid Hydrogen ◽  
Thermal Capacity ◽  
Liquid Oxygen ◽  
Reduced Pressure ◽  
External Work ◽  
Adiabatic Principle ◽  
Continuous Output

The liquefaction of helium by Kammerlingh Onnes has led in the past thirty years to discoveries of the greatest importance to the study of the solid state. In spite of this, very few laboratories are now equipped with the apparatus necessary for the production of liquid helium. It is therefore very desirable that the complicated technique necessary for its production should be simplified to allow of its more extensive use. In this paper we shall describe a more efficient liquefier, based on an adiabatic principle, which we hope will considerably simplify the production of liquid helium for scientific work. At present two principal methods are used for the cooling and liquefying of gases. The first method is based on cooling produced by adiabatic expansion where the expanding gas is cooled by doing external work. This phenomenon was observed by Clèment and Desormes in 1819 when they discovered the cooling of a gas in a container when its pressure was reduced by letting out some of the gas through a tap. It can be shown that on expanding, the gas remaining in the container has done work in communicating kinetic energy to the escaped gas, and therefore has been cooled adiabatically. Olszewski in 1895 applied this method to the liquefaction of hydrogen; he compressed the gas to 190 atmospheres and pre-cooled it with liquid oxygen boiling at reduced pressure (-211°C); on releasing the pressure, he observed a fog of liquid hydrogen drops. From this experiment he was able to determine the critical data for hydrogen. This method has also been used recently by Simon for liquefying helium. Simon took advantage of the fact that at very low temperatures the thermal capacity of the container is so small that it practically absorbs no cold from the liquefied helium. The limitations of this method are that it can only conveniently be applied for obtaining small amounts of liquid helium; it is not suited for a continuous output of helium, and also there is necessarily a loss of cold due to the gas which leaves the container. The method is also complicated by the fact that high pressures are required, and that pre-cooling with liquid hydrogen boiling at reduced pressure is necessary.

scholarly journals III. Investigations of the specific heat of solid bodies

1865 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 71-202 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Specific Heat ◽  
Thermal Action ◽  
General View ◽  
Specific Heats ◽  
General Law ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Solid Bodies

I. About the year 1780 it was distinctly proved that the same weights of different bodies require unequal quantities of heat to raise them through the same temperature, or on cooling through the same number of thermometric degrees, give out unequal quantities of heat. It was recognized that for different bodies the unequal quantities of heat, by which the same weights of different bodies are heated through the same range, must be determined as special constants, and considered as characteristic of the individual bodies. This newly discovered property of bodies Wilke designated as their specific heat , while Crawford described it as the comparative heat, or as the capacity of bodies for heat . I will not enter upon the earliest investigations of Black, Irvine, Crawford, and Wilke, with reference to which it may merely be mentioned that they depend essentially on the thermal action produced when bodies of different temperatures are mixed, and that Irvine appears to have been the first to state definitely and correctly in what manner this thermal action (that is, the temperature resulting from the mixture) depends on the original temperature, the weights, and the specific heats of the bodies used for the mixture. Lavoisier and Laplace soon introduced the use of the ice-calorimeter as a method for determining the specific heat of bodies; and J. T. Mayer showed subsequently that this determination can be based on the observation of the times in which different bodies placed under comparable conditions cool to the same extent by radiation. The knowledge of the specific heats of solid and liquid bodies gained during the last century, and in the first sixteen years of the present one, by these various methods, may be left unmentioned. The individual determinations then made were not so accurate that they could be compared with the present ones, nor was any general conclusion drawn in reference to the specific heats of the various bodies. 2. Dulong and Petit’s investigations, the publication of which commenced in 1818, brought into the field more accurate determinations, and a general law. The investigations of the relations between the specific heats of the elements and their atomic weights date from this time, and were afterwards followed by similar investigations into the relations of the specific heats of compound bodies to their composition. In order to give a general view of the results of these investigations, it is desirable to present, for the elements mentioned in the sequel, a synopsis of the atomic weights assumed at different times, and of certain numbers which stand in the closest connexion with these atomic weights.

scholarly journals XVII. On the atomic weight of glucinum (Beryllium)

1883 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 601-613
Keyword(s):  
Specific Heat ◽  
Volatile Compound ◽  
Atomic Weight ◽  
Normal Number ◽  
Vapour Density ◽  
Atomic Heat ◽  
Lothar Meyer ◽  
Free Metal

I. Introductory. Ever since the discovery of glucinum by Vauquelin, in 1798, its atomic weight has been a disputed matter amongst chemists. Its discoverer considered that its oxide was a monoide, an opinion which was however strongly opposed by Berzelius, who wrote the oxide Gl 2 O 3 and the atomic weight 13⋅7 (O=16). The researches of Awdejew and Debrayt again turned the scale in favour of the earlier view, and as an atomic weight of 9⋅2 suited the properties of the metal in the tables of periodicy constructed by MM. Mendeleef and Lothar Meyer, this atomic weight has, up to quite recently, been generally accepted by chemists. As a welcome confirmation to this came a determination of the specific heat of the metal by Professor E. Reynolds, J who found that for its atomic heat to be near the normal number 6⋅0, its atomic weight must be 9⋅2 and not 13⋅8. Almost immediately afterwards a second determination of the specific heat was made by MM. Nilson and Petterson, who, however, obtained a result agreeing not with the lower atomic weight hut with the higher. The reasons for these conflicting opinions are to be found—first, in the anomalous position of glucinum among the elements; secondly, in the difficulties which surround the preparation of even small quantities of the free metal in a tolerably pure condition; and thirdly, in the fact that no volatile compound of glucinum is known of which the vapour density might be easily determined.

Specific heats of polymer powders by differential scanning calorimetry

1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (14) ◽  
pp. 1853-1856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva I. Vargha-Butler ◽  
A. Wilhelm Neumann ◽  
Hassan A. Hamza
Keyword(s):  
Differential Scanning Calorimetry ◽  
Specific Heat ◽  
Scanning Calorimetry ◽  
Temperature Range ◽  
Specific Heats ◽  
Powdered Form ◽  
Polymer Powders

The specific heats of five polymers were determined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) in the temperature range of 300 to 360 K. The measurements were performed with polymers in the form of films, powders, and granules to clarify whether or not DSC specific heat values are dependent on the diminution of the sample. It was found that the specific heats for the bulk and powdered form of the polymer samples are indistinguishable within the error limits, justifying the determination of specific heats of powders by means of DSC.

3. Results of Experiments on the Specific Heat of Certain Rocks

1845 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 373-374
Author(s):  
M. Regnault
Keyword(s):  
Specific Heat ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Specific Heats

Professor Forbes observed that, in his communication to the Royal Society on the Conductivity of Soils for Heat, on the 20th December last (see Proceedings, page 343*), he had referred to the separation of the conductivity and specific heat, which are involved in the results of the thermometric experiments on subterranean temperature. In order to eliminate the effect of specific heat, M. Regnault of Paris (well known by his experiments on this subject) undertook, at the request of M. Elie de Beaumont, to ascertain the specific heats of the soils in which the different sets of thermometers are sunk.

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