the water in the outer vessel. This is due India, the natives who do this work are paid from port a column of mercury. to capillary attraction, and isa true force. The force seven to ten cents a day ; and if a machine could be A glass funnel has a glass tube fitted to its stem. is exerted by the… … These facts have been repeatedly brought to the mospheric pressure is so made to demonstrate the ac- attention of our legislators at Washington, but so far tion of capillarity. without the slightest effect ; and while such indiffer- The wineglass is three-quarters filled with water, a one-sixteenth…
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