He lighted all the reluctant gas-jets in the vast gilt chandelier, and in less than half an hour the temperature of the place rose to at least sixty-five Fahrenheit, with every promise of going higher.
But this convinced them that they were suffering from weather and not from the climate, which must really be hot and dry; and they went home to their hotel and sat contentedly down in a temperature of sixty degrees.
There was no steam on in the radiators, of course; when they implored the portier for at least a lamp to warm their hands by he turned on all the electric lights without raising the temperature in the slightest degree.
Perhaps the rat had an alternative nest among nearby boulders, to use when temperature was unendurable beneath the metal.
Sleet fell in small granules, while the temperature remained several degrees below freezing.
On the following day the temperature dropped to -7 deg.
On the night of January 18, there was one of the worst snow storms on record and temperature reached a low of 2 deg.
On the morning of the second day after its commencement, a visible relaxation takes place in the temperature of the atmosphere.
The waters in the pools between the rapids of rivers can hardly ever be still enough for the water to fall below the freezing- point and yet remain fluid; the temperature of water in such situations is not below 33 degrees.
I had a striking proof this season of the much lower temperature required by oats than wheat, when strongly stimulated by manuring.
The men come in squads to the building which houses the equipment, strip off their clothing which goes to the delouser, where they are dry-baked at a temperature sufficiently high to kill the nits.
The same quantity of beets was treated per 24 hours, and the general temperature remained the same.
The power of any burner, for any specified purpose, depends not only on its perfection, but to a far greater extent on the difference in the temperature of the flame and of the object to be heated.
Sometimes a plate is required to be heated to a high temperature in one confined spot, and, as an example of this, I may take the bluing of the hands of watches.
A compact flame of hightemperature cannot be obtained except with a heavy air pressure, and the ignorance of this fact has caused an immense number of unexplained failures.
This flame is produced by the assistance of a blast of air, and is of sufficiently high temperature to fuse the spindle in a few minutes.
For the heating of liquids, the greatest economy is to be obtained from one single flame, of as high a temperature as can conveniently be obtained, and the flame must be in actual contact with the vessel to be heated.
This compression, which raises the temperature and pressure of the steam, permits of condensing the latter in contact with the vessel wherein it has been produced.
A mass of cold metal placed in the oven is instantly bedewed with moisture, which dries up as the temperature of the metal rises.
The total heat of the steam remains nearly constant, whatever be the temperature at which the vaporization occurred.
As for the running of the apparatus, that was perfectly regular, and the deviations in temperature in each evaporater were scarcely two or three degrees.
The instant and great rise in temperatureof the furnace, and the greater stability of the solid fuel used, are extraordinary.
If infusible casings can be made, I think I am not overstating facts in saying that any temperature required can and will eventually be obtained with the greatest ease.
Chlorine does not unite with carbon even at the high temperature of the electric arc, but fluorine reacts even at the ordinary temperature with finely divided carbon.
Lime becomes most brilliantly incandescent, owing partly to the excess being raised to a very high temperature by the heat developed during the decomposition, and partly to the phosphorescence of the calcium fluoride formed.
The most desirable temperature for diffusion batteries is not yet definitely settled.
Thallium is rapidly converted to fluoride at ordinary temperatures, the temperature rising until the metal melts and finally becomes red hot.
The exact influence of a low temperature upon beet cells has never been satisfactorily settled.
Precaution must be taken to keep thetemperature at 87° F.
Gold becomes converted into a yellow deliquescent volatile fluoride when heated to low redness, and at a slightly highertemperature the fluoride is dissociated into metallic gold and fluorine gas.
Fluorine has not been found capable of uniting with oxygen up to a temperature of 500°.
Arsenic combines with fluorine at the ordinary temperature with incandescence.
It is evident, in view of the corrosion of the positive platinum terminal of the electrolysis apparatus, that nascent fluorine rapidly attacks platinum at a temperature of -23°.
Graphite must be heated to just below dull redness in order to effect combination; while the diamond has not yet been attacked by fluorine, even at the temperature of the Bunsen flame.
At a temperature of -95° at ordinary atmospheric pressure, fluorine remains gaseous, no sign of liquefaction having been observed.
In the other, more substantial silos, ventilation must be watched, and all communication with the exterior closed as soon as the temperature falls to or near freezing.
As crystalline silicon only melts at a temperature superior to 1,200°, the heat evolved must be very great.
Do not permit the room temperature to fall below 55 degrees.
To be sure the temperature then is a bit low, only about 45 degrees, so the planting is not of the more tender vegetables.
The temperature was taken by means of a thermometer buried in the manure.
The chief things to try for in indoor plant culture are cleanliness of the plant, proper drainage, and freedom from abrupt changes in temperature and draughts.
At first the temperature of this was over one hundred degrees.
These need a temperature of about 60 degrees in the shade, real apple-blooming time.
Brine is used because it freezes at a very low temperature and continues to flow when unsalted water would be frozen solid.
Water, when it boils and turns into steam or vapour, is heated by or extracts heat from the fire, but water vapourises at a high temperature and so cannot be used to produce cold.
Throughout the entire journey it was kept at freezing temperature by artificial means.
In many large apartment-houses the refrigerators built in the various separate suites are kept at a freezing temperature by pipes leading to a refrigerating plant in the cellar.
The thermostat keeps the iron at an even temperature after you set it for the heat you want.
When the oven indicator light goes off, this means that the proper temperature has been reached.
The automatic iron has what is called a thermostatic control which holds the temperature of the iron at the heat you want.
He roamed listlessly here and there and watched the weather-glass uneasily; for this abstention from work was a deliberate challenge to Providence to change sunshine for rain and high temperature for low.
For their personal comfort they kept the big heating-stove well supplied, as they had not the slightest fear that a fall in temperature would affect the contents of the dummy packet which Fordyce still retained.
If, on the other hand, the temperature on board the submarine should fall below -5° C.
Impossible to detonate by combustion, friction, or the application of heat, the explosive was perfectly safe to handle until the temperature fell below -5° C.
Even in the electric radiator-heated cabin the temperature was only a few degrees above freezing-point.
It depends largely on the temperaturein the Baltic, eh?
It's fortunate that in England the temperature rarely falls to much below freezing-point," remarked Fordyce.
Upon the house being abandoned the neglected fires soon dwindled, while the temperature of the attic fell so steadily that within half an hour of the time of leaving the house the nitro-talcite automatically exploded.
Even at that time of the year the temperature of the Baltic was far below the average.
Even if the dog managed to withstand the low temperatureof the water, she would be in considerable danger from the drifting floes.
In the room was stored a small quantity of the powerful nitro-talcite, the temperature of the house being kept up by means of the central heating-stove.
At Naples the summer temperature is seldom above 73 deg.
There is a beach, with good bathing on both sides of the landing, though the low temperature of the water in summer is hardly calculated for invalids.
The temperature of solidification of mercury, according to Fahrenheit's scale of temperature, is -40 deg.
The normal boiling temperature of water all nations have tacitly agreed to fix under a normal barometric pressure of 29.
At times when the air has been in rapid motion, the difference between the reading of a thermometer giving the true temperature of the air in the shade, and an ordinary solar radiation thermometer, has been 20 deg.
It has been even affirmed, after careful investigation, that herrings, which abound in the British Seas, and form a most important branch of our fisheries, can only be found in a temperature varying from 54 deg.
Temperature affects the mixture much, but not solely; as many comparisons of winter with summer changes of temperature have fully proved.
To ascertain the temperature of the mercury, a thermometer is placed near the tube, and is sometimes made to dip into the mercury in the cistern.
In England the annual mean height of the barometric column, reduced to the sea-level and to the temperature of 32 deg.
Melting ice has always the same temperature in every place and under all circumstances; provided only that the water from which the ice is congealed is free from salts.
The temperature of the soil is an important element in the consideration of climate, as it concerns the vegetable kingdom.
When one bulb is heated more than the other, the difference of temperature is delicately shown by the descent of the coloured fluid from the heated ball.
When the temperature decreases, the mercury recedes from the index, leaving it so that the extremity which was in contact with the mercury indicates upon the scale the highest temperature since the instrument was last set.
When the pressure is increased on the surface of any fluid, the temperature of ebullition rises; and with a decrease of pressure, the boiling goes on at a lower degree of heat.
There are five or six separate and successive attacks of fever, in which the temperature of the victim may rise even to 107 degrees; and afterwards the eyes and hearing are temporarily affected by a kind of facial paralysis.
Within an hour the temperaturehas sensibly altered.
Decrease of temperature with the decrease in elevation.
The p 349 elk, for instance, lives in the Scandinavian peninsula, almost ten degrees further north than in the interior of Siberia, where the line of equal winter temperature is so remarkably concave.
Thermopylae, at the foot of Oeta, with a temperature of 149 degrees.
This increase of temperature has been found in the Puits de Grenelle, at Paris, at 58.
The periodic changes of temperature which have been occasioned on the Earth's surface by the Sun's position and by meteorological processes, are continued in its interior, although to a very inconsiderable depth.
In the course of the last seventeen years, from causes not yet perfectly understood, but probably not connected with the actual temperature of the caves, the thermometer standing there has risen very nearly 0.
The temperature being very high, a proportion of the volatile hydrocarbons is decomposed, and a film of graphitic carbon is deposited on the coke, giving it a semi-metallic lustre and silvery grey colour.
Amontons therefore argued that the zero of his thermometer would be that temperature at which the spring of the air in it was reduced to nothing.
Pouillet, again, calculated the temperatureof interplanetary space as -142 deg.
The latter process is carried out in rotating iron drums in which the beans are heated to a temperature of about 260 deg.
Bright sunshine and a pleasant climate (mean annual temperature about 48 deg.
The lowest steady temperature obtainable by the exhaustion of liquid hydrogen is about -262 deg.
The roaster must judge of the amount of heat required for the adequate roasting of different qualities, and while that is variable, the range of roasting temperature proper for individual kinds is only narrow.
For medical purposes the corm should be collected in the early summer and, after the outer coat has been removed, should be sliced and dried at a temperature of 130 deg.
Mercury from the sun would have its temperature raised to 483 deg.
The gas given off during the earlier part of the coking process is richer in heavy hydrocarbons and of a higher illuminating value than that of the later period when the temperature is higher.
The mean annual temperature on the eastern plains, so far as known, ranges from 87 deg.
But these and a few other similar cases had been explained as depending on a different arrangement of the particles, due most probably to a difference in the temperature during the operation.
It follows from the low temperature at which these changes are effected, that there is probably no position of inorganic matter that is not in a state of relative motion.
He carefully laid down wine, he personally supervised his cellars and knew the temperature necessary to maintain the character of the contents of his bins.
It did not occur to me then, to compare it with the known temperature of the stream, after it is formed into a current; but I have no doubt that it will be found so to agree, as to afford substantial confirmation to these views.
With regard to the temperature of the water in the stream, it is stated, that its average, off the Capes of Florida, is 86 deg.
And, as the regions through which the supposed passage is formed, are known to be volcanic, the supposition accounts for the high temperature of the water, as well as for the force of the current.
The temperature of the Gulf Stream is correctly given; but he has evidently placed that of the ocean under the tropics, too low.
But it would suffice for my purpose, if the temperature was at the same time lower along certain broad belts of longitude.
If this be admitted, it is difficult to avoid believing that the temperature of the whole world was at this period simultaneously cooler.
The temperature of the bath should be warm and rapidly cooled at the finish.
The isothermal lines of mean temperature do not supply a graduated measure of the effects of temperature on animal life.
The equatorial region has the most equable climate; tropical regions have much greater variations of temperature than those near the equator, and have a hot and cold or dry and rainy season.
So far as climate is concerned, no single meteorological influence appears, however, to equal the effect oftemperature upon health, and its range is of more importance than its mean.
Of or pertaining to an isobathytherm; possessing or indicating the same temperature at the same depth.
A line connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean temperature in the coldest month of the year.
This may be the temperature for a given time of observation, or the mean temperature for a year or other period.
It is equal to the weight of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density, or 39° Fahrenheit.
Also, a similar line based on the distribution of temperature in the ocean.
A line connecting the points on the surface of the earth where a certain temperature is found at the same depth.
Pepsin modified by exposure to a temperature of from 40° to 60° C.
A line drawn on a diagram of energy such that its ordinates represent the pressures of a substance corresponding to various volumes, while the absolute temperature is maintained at a constant value.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "temperature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
