"There are two great classes of fluids. ...the first class, such as water... will partly fill the vessel... Fluids having this property are called s. If... the fluid which we put into the closed vessel be one of the second class, then... it will expand and fill the vessel... Fluids having this property are called es. ...a gas cannot, like a liquid, be kept in an openmouthed vessel."
Theory of Heat

January 1, 1970

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