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Title: Thermista Balometer, or Expanding Ball and Ring
Publication Information: Santa Clara University Library, Archives & Special Collections
Contributing Institution: Santa Clara University
Collection: Santa Clara University Archives ClaraVision Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Permission to copy or publish any portion of SCU Archives materials must be given by Santa Clara University Library, Archives & Special Collections.
Description: The brass ball will just pass through a brass ring when cold, but when the ball is heated in boiling water it expands so that it no longer passes through the ring. The ball and ring demonstration of heat expansion has been in use since the early 18th century.
Type: image
Format: image
Identifier: http://content.scu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/claravision/id/260
Language: English
Subject: Scientific apparatus and instruments
Santa Clara University (Calif.)
Thermodynamics--Experiments
Place: Santa Clara (Calif.)
Source: sci.inst.24.8
Relation: Santa Clara College 19th Century Scientific Instruments Collection

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