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IN the American Chemical Journal Prof. Mallet describes a simple form of calorimeter whereby the specific heats of moderately small quantities of solids or liquids may be measured with a fair degree of accuracy. Mercury is employed, instead of water, as the material whose temperature is raised, and comparison is made, not of the total amounts of heat given out by different bodies on cooling, but of fractions of this heat rendered as nearly as possible equal.
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Chemical Notes . Nature 24, 41 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024041a0
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