Ice in Hospitals
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Ice is produced, and low temperatures generally obtained, by the alternate expansion to the gaseous state and liquefaction of certain substances that lend themselves to the treatment. Nearly all substances may exist in the solid, the liquid, or the gaseous state, the condition they are in at any moment depending upon the pressure to which they are subject and the quantity of heat they have absorbed. Water forms the readiest illustration of this. We know it as
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دوره 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017