The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 297
Draper on the Physical Action of Capillary Systems. 293 a fluid to be wetted bj it. It results from the mathematical investiga- tions of Cl'airault, that if the attraction of the particles of the solid for those of the fluid is more than half the attraction of these last for each other, the solid… … of glass, substitute a Fig- 3. plate of amalgamated copper, of the same size and weight, and ascer- tain the force required to detach it; this will uniformly be found more than double the former weight. The first weight expressed the at- tractive force existing between a surface of glass and…
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