Open AccessThe conductivity of heat insulators
Publication year - 1900
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9126
pISSN - 0370-1662
DOI - 10.1098/rspl.1899.0034
Subject(s) - lagging , conductivity , materials science , mathematics , statistics , physics , quantum mechanics
The comparative efficiency of materials used as insulators has been the subject of several investigations ; the majority of these have been conducted at fairly high temperatures, and it may be questioned whether the results can be applied to the same materials when used as a lagging to protect bodies at low temperatures. Moreover the methods adopted do not seem susceptible of any considerable accuracy.