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Rh ;A sudden fall indicates a storm.
 * 水銀忽降指有大風雨


 * To mariners and farmers it is most valuable.
 * 海客農視夫此為至寶

The Thermometer. 寒暑針

 * Both ends of a glass tube are closed.
 * 玻璃管口兩端皆閉


 * The mercury is in the bulb.
 * 管底貯有水銀


 * It contracts and expands according to the temperature
 * 水銀因寒則縮因𤍠則漲


 * As it expands it rises, and vice versa.
 * 漲則升縮則降


 * A table indicates the degrees.
 * 玻璃管旁號識度數


 * 32 is the freezing point.
 * 水銀降至三十二度時水則凝結成氷


 * 60 to 70 neither hot nor cold.
 * 六七十度寒暑適中


 * 96 blood or great heat.
 * 人血本𤍠九十六度


 * 110 fever heat.
 * 𤍠病一百十度


 * 212 the boiling point.
 * 沸湯𤍠二百十二度

Hydrogen or light gas. 輕氣

 * Air-balloon.
 * 輕氣球


 * Hydrogen is much lighter than air.
 * 輕氣比地氣輕數倍


 * Carburetted hydrogen or coal gas.
 * 炭氣輕氣卽煤炭氣


 * The safety lamp prevents explosion when one goes down the shaft.
 * 携燈籠入煤井方免毒氣焚着

Heat and light are imponderable. 𤍠與光不能以權稱之

 * There are six kinds of heat.
 * 𤍠有六樣


 * Natural or solar heat.
 * 日𤍠


 * Fire or artificalartificial [sic] heat.
 * 火𤍠


 * Electric or galvanic heat.
 * 電氣𤍠


 * Animal heat.
 * 肉身𤍠卽本然𤍠


 * Heat from chemical changes.
 * 化成之𤍠


 * Heat from friction.
 * 二物相擊成之𤍠


 * All bodies have their own natural heat.
 * 各物皆有本然之𤍠


 * They also receive and radiate heat.
 * 物能接𤍠能傳散𤍠


 * Heat is radiated equally in all directions.
 * 𤍠傳散四週均勻


 * There are good and bad radiators of heat.
 * 物質傳散𤍠有難易


 * Those that receive it easily radiate it easily.
 * 接𤍠易者出𤍠亦易