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SIR FREDERICK ABEL has not fortified his statement by even one quotation from the writings of one of those workers “antecedent to and contemporaneous with” myself, who, according to his letter in the last number of NATURE (p. 417), have taken the variable specific heat of air into account in drawing comparisons between experimental effects obtained in practically open apparatuses and the corresponding effects to be expected in a great explosion taking place in the practically closed space represented by the workings of a mine.
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GALLOWAY, W. The Coal-Dust Question. Nature 33, 441 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033441b0
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