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CONVERSATION IV.
ON SPECIFIC HEAT, LATENT IIEAT, ANDCHEMICAL HEAT.
MRS. B.
We are now to examine the three other modi-fications of caloric.
CAROLINE.
I am very curious to know of what nature theycan be; for I have no notion of any kind of beatthat is not perceptible to the senses.
MRS. B.
In order to enable you to understand them, itwill be necessary to enter into some previous ex-planations.
It has been discovered by modern chemists,that bodies of a different nature, heated to thesame temperature, do not contain the same quan-tity of caloric.
CAROLINE.
How could that be ascertained? Have you not