The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 295
de to lift the disk with the hand. This force Fig. I. is known under the name of capillary attraction. An investigation of its physical cause, and the laws respecting it, involve the funda- mental propositions of pore-action and passage through tissues. 10. The phenomena of capillarity are brought… … so long as the glass plane and the Fig. 2. mercury are in contact, the electrometer evinces no disturbance: but
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