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A DESCRIPTION of improved apparatus for the determination of high melting points, by his admirable new method, is contributed to the current Berichte by Prof. Victor Meyer, in conjunction with his students Messrs. Riddle and Lamb. The simplicity of the method will doubtless cause it to take rank immediately among the standard processes for the determination of physical constants, and alongside the universally popular method of determining vapour densities, which we likewise owe to the distinguished Heidelberg professor. Naturally, however, operations at temperatures higher than those at which the hardest varieties of glass soften, must perforce be conducted in apparatus constructed of platinum, just as in the cases of the determinations of vapour density at the same high temperatures. One of the main advantages of the method is that it only necessitates the use of a very small quantity of the substance whose melting point is to be determined, thus enabling it to be extended to compounds of the most extreme rarity.
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TUTTON, A. Prof. Victor Meyer'S New Method of Determining High Melting Points. Nature 51, 161 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051161a0
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