Materials with negative linear compressibility are sought for various technological applications. Such effects were reported mainly in framework materials. When heated, they typically contract in the ...

The change in temperature of a body causes expansion or contraction of that body. Most of the substances expand on heating and contract on cooling. This is called thermal expansion. It has been ...

AT the British Association which met last year in Edinburgh I suggested a thermometer of translation which should record the amount of the successive rises of temperature during the year. For this ...