expansibility

The long and difficult experiments performed by Guillaume year after year on numerous alloys and above all on nickel steel to determine their expansibility, elasticity, hardness, changeability with age, and stability ultimately led him to the important discovery of the nickel steel alloy known as invar, the temperature coefficient of which is practically zero.

Nobel Prize in Physics 1920 - Presentation Speech 1967

It was thus basic to examine with the greatest precision the expansibility of all metals and alloys under the action of heat.

Nobel Prize in Physics 1920 - Presentation Speech 1967

The expansibility of the state by the dimension of its authority so clearly implied in the curious flexibility of the rigorous Hobbes, was precisely stated by his follower, Samuel Pufendorf, in his correlative concepts of the ruler's “imperfect rights” and the subject's “im - perfect obligations” (Pufendorf, II, 289).

AUTHORITY LEONARD KRIEGER 1968

The result is, that the expansibility of the lungs is considerably less in the black than the white race of similar size, age and habit.

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

Well-formed chests offer no impediment to its inroads, if the volume of blood be out of proportion to the expansibility and capacity of the pulmonary organs.

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

Did we know the influence of cold in limiting the expansibility of the elementary gases, we might approximately determine the mass of a comet, from the size of its nucleus; but this is a problem that has never yet been solved; and astronomers ought to avail themselves of every indication which promises to realize this great desideratum.

Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett

The expansibility of air, which is vapour in a permanent form, can be shown by experiment.

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

They pass into the form of vapour, occupy a thousand times larger area, and possess an elasticity of compressibility and expansibility they were destitute of before.

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

It is based on certain principles, the foundation one of which is the expansibility of steam, and its ability, when confined in a cylinder, to give motion to a piston.

Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913

When Picard had corrected the variation caused by heat and cold acting upon the pendulum rod by combining metals of different degrees of expansibility, a high degree of accuracy was possible.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904