 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1884 - 892 lapas
...the matter of almospheric dust and fog, mist and cloud, are as follows : " ist, That when water vapor condenses in the atmosphere it always does so on some solid nucleus ; га, That the dust particles in the air form the nuclei on which it condenses ; 3d, If there was... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1922 - 844 lapas
...qualification ; for example, summarizing his experiment* on dust, fogs and cloud he says : — (1) That when water vapour condenses in the atmosphere it always does so on some solid nucleus. (2) That the dust particles in the air form the nuclei on which it condenses. (3) If there was no dust... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1923 - 330 lapas
...qualification ; for example, summarizing his experiments on dust, fogs and cloud he says : — (1) That when water vapour condenses in the atmosphere it always does so on some solid nucleus. (2) That the dust particles in the air form the nuclei on which it condenses. (3) If there was no dust... | |
 | John Aitken, Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1923 - 638 lapas
...first experiments. The conclusions which may be drawn from these experiments are — (1) that when water vapour condenses in the atmosphere, it always does so on some solid nucleus ; (2) that the dust particles in the air form the nuclei on which it condenses; (3) if there was no... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1882 - 938 lapas
...they are heavy and fall like fine rain. The conclusions drawn from these experiments are — 1st, That whenever water vapour condenses in the atmosphere it always does so on some solid nucleus ; 2d, that dust-particles in the air form the nuclei on which the vapour condenses ; 3d, that if there... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1881 - 800 lapas
...appeared. From these and similar experiments the author concludes : 1st, that whenever water vapor condenses in the atmosphere it always does so on some solid nucleus ; 2d, that dust-particles in the air form the nuclei on which the vapor condenses ; 3d, that if there... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1882 - 336 lapas
...Dust, Fogs, and Clouds, by John Aitken. 2 papers (9 pp.). From experiments, the author shows : 1, that whenever water vapour condenses in the atmosphere it always does so on some solid nucleus ; 2, that dust particles in the air form the nuclei on which the vapour condenses ; 3, that if there... | |
 | John Aitken, Cargill Gilston Knott - 634 lapas
...first experiments. The conclusions which may be drawn from these experiments are — (1) that when water vapour condenses in the atmosphere, it always does so on some solid nucleus; (2) that the dust particles in the air form the nuclei on which it condenses; (3) if there was no dust... | |
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... if there was no dust there would be no fogs, no clouds, no mists, and probably no rain, and that the supersaturated air would convert every object on the surface of the earth into a condenser on which it would... 
