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II. THE following considerations appear to have guided Osmond in beginning his investigations (see ante, p. 16). Bearing in mind the fact that molecular change in a body is always accompanied by evolution or absorption of heat, which is, indeed, the surest indication of the occurrence of molecular change, he studied with the aid of a chronograph what takes place during the slow cooling and the slow heating of masses of iron or steel, using, as a thermometer to measure the temperature of the mass, a thermo-electric couple of platinum and of platinum containing 10 per cent. of rhodium, converting the indications of the galvanometer into temperatures by Tait's formulæ.
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On the Hardening and Tempering of Steel1. Nature 41, 32–38 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/041032c0
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