Specific volume mercury

Pressure. Standard atmospheric pressure is defined to be the force exerted by a column of mercury 760-mm high at 0°C. This corresponds to 0.101325 MPa (14.695 psi). Reference or fixed points for pressure caUbration exist and are analogous to the temperature standards cited (23). These points are based on phase changes or resistance jumps in selected materials. For the highest pressures, the most rehable technique is the correlation of the wavelength shift, /SX with pressure of the mby, R, fluorescence line and is determined by simultaneous specific volume measurements on cubic metals... 

From Mercury—Density and Thermal Expansion at Atmospheric Pressure and Temperatures from 0 to. 350 C, Tables of Standard Handbook Data, Standartov, Moscow, 1978. The density values obtainable from those cited for the specific volume of the saturated liquid in the Thermodynamic Properties subsection show minor differences. No attempt was made to adjust either set. 

Figure 28 shows the key features of the humidity chart. The chart consists of the following four parameters plotted as ordinates against temperature on the abscissas (1) Humidity H, as pounds of water per pound of dry air, for air of various relative humidities (2) Specific volume, as cubic feet of dry air per pound of dry air (3) Saturated volume in units of cubic feet of saturated mixture per pound of dry air and (4) latent heat of vaporization (r) in units of Btu per pound of water vaporized. The chart also shows plotted hiunid heat (s) as abscissa versus the humidity (H) as ordinates, and adiabatic humidification curves (i.e., humidity versus temperature). Figure 28 represents mixtures of dry air and water vapor, whereby the total pressure of the mixture is taken as normal barometric. Defining the actual pressure of the water vapor in the mixture as p (in units of mm of mercury), the pressure of the dry air is simply 760 - p. The molal ratio of water vapor to air is p/(760-p), and hence the mass ratio is ... 

A transition of this kind from metal to insulator will occur when some parameter, for instance the specific volume, the c/a ratio or the composition in an alloy, changes in such a way that two bands cease to overlap, producing a full valence band and an empty conduction band with an energy gap between them (see Fig. 4.1). A simple case is that due to the change in volume of a divalent metal. In any divalent metal, if the volume increases sufficiently, an s-like valence band will separate off from a p-like conduction band, the density of states going from the form of Fig. 1.13(b) to that of Fig. 1.13(c). The most favourable case is mercury,... 

At 60°F and atmospheric pressure (30 inches of mercury), the specific volume of oxygen is 11.819 cubic feel per pound. Therefore, I mole of oxygen has a volume of 32 x 11.819 = 378.21 cubic feci. Similarly, at 60°F and atmospheric pressure, the specific volume of hydrogen is... 

Example 1.2 Table 1.3 lists the specific volumes of water, mercury, hydrogen at l(atm), and hydrogen at lOO(atm) for a number of temperatures on the International Practical Temperature Scale. Assume that each substance is the fluid in a thermometer, calibrated at the ice and steam points as suggested at the beginning of this section. To determine how good these thermometers are, calculate what each reads at the true temperatures for which data are given. 

The total specific volume, Vtoi, is determined pycnometrically by imbibition of the porous material in mercury at 0.1 MPa pressure. Note that most materials are not wetted by mercury. Hence, mercury will not penetrate into the pores at 0.1 MPa pressure. 

Fig. 8.5 Relations between porosities (volume percentages) and water/ccmcnt ratio for mature Portland cement pastes. The experimental data are for pastes at least 8 months old, and the calculated curves relate to a typical cement aged 18 months. Open symbols total water porosities. Filled or half-filled symbols mercury porosities. Curve A total water porosity. Curve B free water porosity. Curve C capillary porosity. References to data O (P20) O (S77) A (F33) V (M68) (S78) (F34) 9 (019) (M68) (D3I) 3 (H4I). In the last two cases, porosities by volume were estimated from data referred in the original sources to masses of dried paste, assuming the tatter to have contained 0.23 kg of water per kg of cement having a specific volume of 3.17 x 10 m kg h...

If the volume of a specific gravity bottle, pyknometer, or dilatometer is found accurately at one temperature by weighing the vessel empty and then full of a standard liquid, such as water or mercury, this volume will alter as the. temperature is changed. Let Fo=real volume of liquid at 0°C.,... 

In order to identify the volume variation mechanisms on the precipitated silica sample, experiments were performed at various maximum pressure below and near the point of slope change P,.. A monolithic sample of high dispersive precipitated silica was weighted and its specific volume (2.04 cm /g) was determined using mercury pycnometry. It has been submitted to mercury porosimetry until a pressure (40 MPa) just below the characteristic transition... 

From Vukalovich, Ivanov, Fokin, and Yakovlev, Thermophysical Properties of Mercury, Standartov, Moscow, 1971. For the saturated liquid the specific volume at 203.15 K is 7.26239 x 10 m Vkg, etc. All the tabular values for 203.15 K, 213.15 K, 223.15 K, and 233.15 K represent a metastable equilibrium between the subcooled liquid and the saturated vapor. 

The product of PV for a low-density gas is said to be a thermometric property in that to each value of FV there corresponds only a single value of temperature. The ideal gas thermometer is not convenient to use. however, because of both its mechanical construction (see Fig. 1.4-3) and the manipulation required to make a measurement. Therefore, common thermometers make use of thermometric properties of other materials—for example, the single-valued relation between temperature and the specific volume of liquid mercury (Problem 1.2) or the electrical resistance of platinum wire. There are two steps in the construction of thermometers based on these other thermometric propenies first, fabrication of the device, such as sealing liquid mercury in an otherwise evacuated tube and second, the calibration of the thermometric indi-... 

The pore volume—for pores with a radius smaller than 7.5 u—is mostly estimated by subtracting the specific volumes measured with mercury and with helium. When applied to microporous systems with a large surface area, however, the latter volume needs to be corrected because of the fact that the helium atoms have a volume of their own (45, 48). As the acting radius of the helium atom is not known and as a possible adsorption of helium slightly compensates the effect, it is difficult to estimate the actual value of the correction. It may, however, amount to a few per cent of the density. 

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