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VI. 



Enquiries concerning the Dilatation of the Gafes and Vapors. 

 Read to the National Injiitute of France. By Cit. Gay 

 Lussac. 



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JL HE following is the table of refults of Citizen Guytonand 

 Duvernois, in which they have placed between brackets thofe 

 in which they place little confidence. 



Before I proceed further, I ought to premife, that though 

 I had frequently found that oxigen, azote, hidrogen, carbonic 

 acid gas, and atmofpheric air, dilate equally from 0° to 80°, 

 Cit. Charles had remarked the fame properties in thefe gafes 

 fifteen years ago ; but having never publilhed his refults, it 

 was by mere chance that I became acquainted with them. 

 He likewife endeavoured to determine the dilatation of gafes 



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