Stewart, Balfour, 1828-1887 · Toronto : James Campbell · leaf 29
what we ■ • c i« SCIENCE PRIMERS. [properties really mean is best explained by making a series ofsimple experiments. * Experiment 8.—Let me take a bar of iron ; Iwill first of all try to break it in pieces by meansof a blow, but it wont be broken. I will next try to stretch it out by hanging it… … Fig- 5- round the one end, while I hold the other still, butit wont be twisted. I will now set the bar endwise upon the table, andput a heavy weight above it, to try and squeeze ittogether, but it wont be squeezed. And finally I will hang it up horizontally by bothends, and attach a weight to the…
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