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88 CORK INSULATION<br />

vaporize, and when vaporizati<strong>on</strong> begins it occurs violently<br />

and is attended by an immediate fall of temperature to the<br />

normal boiling point. If pure water is cooled, its temperature<br />

usually falls a number of degrees below its normal freezing<br />

point before freezing actually begins, but a large amount of<br />

ice is then suddenly formed and the temperature quickly rises<br />

to the normal freezing point. These phenomena are comm<strong>on</strong><br />

to most liquids, but the c<strong>on</strong>verse is not true ; that is, water<br />

vapor will not c<strong>on</strong>dense until it reaches its normal c<strong>on</strong>densing<br />

point, and ice begins to melt immediately up<strong>on</strong> reaching its<br />

normal melting point.<br />

55.— Critical Temperatures.—When a liquid and its vapor<br />

are c<strong>on</strong>fined in a vessel and heated, a porti<strong>on</strong> of the liquid<br />

vaporizes, the pressure increases, the density of the vapor<br />

increases and possibly the density of the liquid decreases.<br />

When that temperature is reached where the density of the<br />

liquid and of the vapor become identical, the liquid and the<br />

vapor are physically identical and this temperature is called<br />

the critical temperature of the liquid. Thus the heat of va-<br />

porizati<strong>on</strong> of a liquid is zero at its critical temperature. In<br />

the following table the critical temperatures of various sub-<br />

stances are given<br />

:<br />

CRITICAL TEMPERATURES OF VARIOUS REFRIGERANTS*.<br />

Substance Chemical Symbol Degrees F.<br />

Sulphur dioxide SO2 311.0<br />

Amm<strong>on</strong>ia NH3 271.4<br />

Methyl chloride CH3CI 289.0<br />

Carb<strong>on</strong> dioxide CO2 88.2<br />

Ethyl chloride C0H5CI 360.5<br />

Butane C4H10 311.0<br />

Nitrous oxide N2O 95.7<br />

Propane CsHg 216.0<br />

Ethane C-Ue 90.0<br />

Methane CH^ ' —115.6<br />

Ether CiHioO<br />

56.—Saturated Vapor.—A vapor is said to be saturated<br />

when it is at its maximum pressure for a given temperature,<br />

or when it is at its minimum temperature for a given pressure.<br />

57.—Effect of Pressure <strong>on</strong> Melting Point.—Change of pres-<br />

sure varies but slightly the melting points of substances, but<br />

the lowering of the melting point of ice by increase of pressure<br />

'Compiled from data by H. D. Edwards and U. S. Bureau of Standards.

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