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Carnet's Cycle and Efficiency of Heat Engines
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Carnet's Cycle and Efficiency of Heat Engines

  • STANLEY S. COOK1 

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IN NATURE of August 29, 1925, there was published on p. 326 an extract of a paper read by Dr. Haldane before the Institution of Mining Engineers at Cardiff on June 16, in which he advances a somewhat unusual view as regards the efficiency of the Carnot cycle.

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COOK, S. Carnet's Cycle and Efficiency of Heat Engines. Nature 117, 266 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117266a0

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