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THE interesting results announced by Prof. Thomas Carnelley, of Firth College, Sheffield, in relation to the physical conditions under which ice persistently maintains its solid state when exposed to the influence of heat (NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 435), deserves some notice. When he speaks of obtaining “solid ice at temperatures so high that it was impossible to touch it without burning one's self,” it is evident that this burning quality appertains to the hot vessel containing the ice, and not to the solid ice itself. For it is obvious that under the given conditions the temperature of the surface of the ice is kept at least as low as 0° C. by the rapid vaporisation of it while in a solid state.
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LECONTE, J. “Solid Ice at High Temperatures”. Nature 22, 603–604 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022603d0
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