| Roger Cotes - 1747 - 356 pages
...balance, placed at the bottom of a large veflel full of water as reprefented in FIG. 26. For having found the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the bubble (by immerling it wholly in the water of the cylindrical glafs abovementioned) and alfo the excefs... | |
| 1764 - 404 pages
...as much weight into the fcale as will reftore the balance to aa equipoife ; and this weight will be the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the quickfilver. Laftly, divide the weight of the quickfilver in air by the weight of its bulk of water,... | |
| James Ferguson - 1764 - 322 pages
...weight into the oppofite fcale as will reftore the balance to an equipoife; and this weight will be the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the quickfilver. Laftly, divide the weight of the quickfilver in air, by the weight of its bulk of water,... | |
| James Ferguson - 1776 - 546 pages
...weight into the oppofite fcale as will reItore the balance to an equipoife -, and this •weight will ba the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the quickfilver. Laftly, divide the weight of the quickfilver in air, by the weight of its bulk of water,... | |
| John Playfair - 1812 - 344 pages
...may suppose to be nearly the same with its weight in air), and if W be its weight in water, W — W is the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the body: It follows from § 30, that the weight of any body divided by the weight of an equal bulk of... | |
| 1816 - 778 pages
...bulk of water; which, as air is no lei's than 800 limes lighter than water, is very nearly equal to the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the included air. A common balance is not convenient for weighing the bottles under water, without fome... | |
| 1825 - 798 pages
...mailer in the ¡and. Now by marking the number of grains of water held by the narrow tube Ъ e on и graduated scale attached to it, we can find at once...and by comparing this with the weight of the sand in air, we have its true specific gravity. Such is the Professor's process, which appears to us remarkably... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - 1825 - 644 pages
...from that of the heavier body, and add the remainder to that of the former in air, we shall obtain the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the lighter body, and we have then only to divide the weight of the lighter body in air by this last mentioned... | |
| William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - 1826 - 448 pages
...'olid matter in the sand. Now, by marking the number of grains of water held by the narrow tube b, c, on a graduated scale attached to it, we can find at...true specific gravity. Aware that some solid bodies, sueh as charcoal, hold much condensed air in their pores, and that probably they retain part of this... | |
| Michael Faraday - 1827 - 678 pages
...space therefore is in the one case bc, and in the other b d. Hence it follows, that the cavity c £?, which is the difference between these, is equal to...the sand, '• we have its true specific gravity. When this apparatus is not at hand, and the substance is in small pieces, it must be supported in the... | |
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