New French observatory

✍ Scribed by C.

• Book ID: 103089050
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1879
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 61 KB
• Volume: 107
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(79)90399-5

✦ Synopsis

French Sleet.--!n a recent storm, file ground and trees in many p~Lrts of France were covered with a crust of ice of remarkable thick-/less tilt that country. Some of the leaves were loaded with a weight of ice fifty times as great as their own weight. Trees, telegraphic wires lind nearly all external objects had a crust of two eentimetres (~} inch). Many branches were broken when the thaw commenced. E. Masse thinks-that the drops of water were ill a state of superfusion at a temperature below zero, and that the crvstallization was started by the simple mechanical contact of the drops with solid bodies.--Compte.~ Rend~l,~.

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