hoarfrost

hoarfrost englannista suomeksi

1. kuura, huurre

0. Substantiivi

hoarfrost englanniksi

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2. (quote-journal)|location=London|publisher=(...) Murray (publishing house)|John Murray,(nb...), and Dilly|Charles Dilly,(nb...); Edinburgh: W. Gordon and C. Elliott|year=1785|volume=IX|section=section III (Medical News)|page=426|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ssEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA426|oclc=1257443687|passage=(..) It is moſt remarkable on the ſurface of ſnovv, vvhen covered vvith hoarfroſt, and on other bodies vvhere hoarfroſt moſt abounds. In ſuch caſes, I have often found the ſurface to be ſeven degrees colder than the air at the diſtance of tvvo feet; (..)

3. (quote-book)|edition=4th|location=Edinburgh|publisher=(...) Francis Pillans,(nb...); London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown|year=1817|volume=I|section=book II (Of Repulsion, and the Powers by which It is Produced), section III (Of the Communication and Diffusion of Caloric)|page=146|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=w618rOQ8B2IC&pg=PA146|oclc=4163726|passage=This striking fact, of the lower temperature of the surface on which dew and hoarfrost are forming, it was always found difficult to explain; for the transition of a body from the state of vapour to the fluid or solid form is always accompanied with an evolution of heat, (..) The surface is not warmer in consequence of the formation of the dew or hoarfrost, but the dew or hoarfrost is deposited because the surface is previously cold; and its low temperature, compared with that of the air above, is owing to the discharge of heat by radiation.

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