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English: Diagram of a Gravesande ring, an experiment demonstrating thermal expansion which is used in physics education. It consists of a small metal ball suspended from a stand by a chain. Below it is a metal ring. The ring is just big enough so when the ball and ring are at the same temperature, the ball can just fit through the ring. However, when the ball is heated by a spirit lamp as shown here, the metal expands and it's diameter increases, so it can no longer fit through the ring.
Français : Schéma d'un anneau de 's Gravesande.

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2o L’expérience suivante, connue sous le nom d’expérience de S’ Gravesande ( 1 ), établit que les corps solides non cris- tallisés demeurent semblables à eux-mêmes en se dilatant. Une sphère métallique (fig. 2) passe librement à travers un anneau de même substance qui l’embrasse suivant un grand cercle. Si l’on vient à chauffer la boule sans modifier la tem- pérature de l’anneau, on constate qu’elle ne peut plus le tra- verser ; mais elle est demeurée sphérique, et ce qui le prouve,


( 1 ) S’ Gravesande, Physices elementa mathematica experimentis confirmata, sive Introductio ad Philosophiam Newtonianam ; Genève, 1778, t. II, p. 660.

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c’est qu’elle touche l’anneau sur tout son contour. D’ailleurs, dès que la sphère s’est mise en équilibre de température avec l’anneau, elle le traverse de nouveau sans difficulté.

Si l’on échauffe à la fois la sphère et l’anneau, celui-ci ne cesse pas d’embrasser exactement la sphère suivant un grand cercle : un solide creux se dilate donc comme s’il était plein.

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Date Published in 1886.
Source

Cours de physique de l'École polytechnique, t. 2, 1er fasc.: Thermométrie et dilatations, Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils (4e édition augmentée et entièrement refondue), p. 4

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Author Jules-Célestin Jamin (died in 1886) and Edmond Bouty (died in 1922) for the École polytechnique.

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