Excerpt from On Heat in Its Relations to Water and Steam: Embracing New Views of Vaporization, Condensation, & Explosions

Surface bubbling, Incipient ebullition, "General mass" of a liquid, True cause and source of ebullition, Experiments on ebullition, The direct cause of bumping and explosions, Effect of the presence of vapor in excess of saturation, Experiments with vapor in excess of saturation, Vapor in water, What ebullition results from, Illustration of the stream of globules in ebullition, Illustrations of the tendency of vapor atoms towards a nucleus, Prevailing theories, Process, purpose, and utility of ebullition, Conclusion to be drawn from the facts of ebullition, Classification of vaporised bodies, Gases or vapors in space, Experiments on vapor in water, Quantity of vapor, Experiment showing the actual existence of vapor in water, Experiment showing the formation and ascensional power of globules, Cause and process of condensation, Condensation in the steam-engine

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