Copper Calorimeter, with wooden box

Description

A heavy cast iron stand slotted to carry a stout iron bar, with ten cast iron breaking bars. Comprising a heavy cast iron frame 340 x 120 x 100 mm with slotted end pillars to carry a stout iron bar. The bar is threaded at one end for a large tensioning nut and has holes at the other end to accommodate the cast iron breaking bars. Supplied complete with ten breaking bars.

Description

To determine the co-efficient of absolute expansion of mercury. Glass tubes with vertical limbs contained within glass jackets approx. 460 x 25 mm height x diameter are closed by bungs and fitted with inlet and outlet tubes. Upper ends of these vertical limbs are angled on emergence from the jackets to produce two short, adjacent limbs placed against a silvered glass scale 0 to 12 cm x 1 mm. Mounted on stand 610 x 230 mm, height x width. Overall height 750 mm approx. supplied without mercury.