BRIDGMAN. 



MERCURY UNDER PRESSURE. 



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before the theory of elasticity was well understood, and the work of 

 Jamin, in particular, is a classical instance of how dangerous it is to 

 follow native intuition where the stress and strain system is at all 



TABLE IV. 



Adjustment of Data — Final Values of Compressibility of Hg at 22°. 



complicated. Jamin's results were 50 per cent too small. Of the 

 more accurate work, Amagat^s gives O.O5379 for the pressure range 

 to 50 kgm., at a temperature apparently unspecified in the original 



** Amagat, loc. cit. 



