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The values thus found for the various coefficients were as 

 follows : — 



The faint line of Figure 2 shows the curve really represented hy 

 the formula y = <f> (x). As every new coefficient requires, in gen- 

 eral, more work for its determination than those preceding, I at- 

 tempted no closer approximation to the actual curve of the steam 

 temperatures than is shown in this diagram. 



