Buffon's Natural History. Volume 10 (of 10) / Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c

by comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon

In the same oven, but with a still less degree of heat, the same bullets cooled,

So as to be held in the hand for half a second.			To actual temperature.
Tin in	6		In	17
Silver in	9		In	26
Gold in	9	1/2	In	28
Copper in	10		In	31
Iron in	11		In	35

Having placed in the same oven five other bullets, placed the same and separated from each other, their refrigeration was in the following proportions.

So as to be held in the hand for half a second.			To actual temperature.
Antimony in	6	1/2	In	25
Bismuth in	7		In	26
Lead in	8		In	27
Zinc in	10	1/2	In	30
Emery in	11	1/2	In	38

In the same oven, and in the same manner, another bullet of Bismuth was placed, with six other bullets, which cooled,

So as to be held in the hand for half a second.			To actual temperature.
Antimony in	6		In	23
Bismuth in	6		In	25
Lead in	7	1/2	In	28
Silver in	9	1/2	In	30
Zinc in	10	1/2	In	32
Gold in	11	1/2	In	34
Emery in	13	1/2	In	39

There was put in the same oven a bullet of glass, another of tin, one of copper, and one of iron, and they cooled, of iron, and they cooled,

So as to be held in the hand for half a second.			To actual temperature.
Tin in	8		In	27
Glass in	8	1/2	In	22
Copper in	14		In	42
Iron in	16		In	50

Bullets of gold, glass, porcelain, gypsum, and gres, were heated together, and cooled,