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Excerpt from Hot Water for Domestic Use: A Complete Guide to the Methods of Supplying and Heating Water for Domestic Purposes, Giving Each Step to Be Taken and Explaining Why It Is Done To thoroughly understand how water can be heated and distributed throughout a building in pipes, so that upon opening a faucet a plentiful supply of hot water can be obtained at all fixtures, it is first necessary to understand the principles which underlie the heating of water for domestic use; to be familiar with the properties of hot water, and understand the behavior of water when subjected to heat or cold. It is a well-known property of water, that, at ordinary temperatures, when subjected to heat it will expand; consequently if a certain quantity of water, which at a low temperature would just fill a measure, be heated, part of the liquid will overflow from the measure, and while the measure would still remain full, the weight of the liquid would be less than before heat was applied. Quantity of water must not be confused with unit measure of water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.