Specific Heat Cylinders Set

Brass and iron, 200 x 25 mm, reverted, with wooden handle.

A high quality apparatus to determine precisely co-efficient of expansion of various metals. An aluminium channel carries a 60 cm long metal rod enclosed in a heating jacket having three nipples for water intake, water outlet and thermometer insertion. Dial indicator is a precision instrument sensitive to 0.01 mm / division and is securely mounted. As the apparatus works with hot water, there is no danger from any steam escaping and causing burns on the skin. Complete with four expansion rods of steel, brass, copper and aluminium.

To determine co-efficient of expansion of a gas at constant pressure. A glass U-tube with a bulb and stopcock at one end, the other limb being open. An outlet tube from the bottom of the U tube passes through a rubber bung and has a stopcock at the end. The stem below the bulb is graduated 3 x 0.1 ml. An inlet tube with a mohr clip also passes through the bung. A glass water jacket encloses the U tube. All glass parts made of borosilicate glass requires only 20 ml mercury, which is not included.