Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 139
is apparatus is a manometer tube, 5,which indicates, in a way wliich will be hereafter described, theamount of pressure. In using the apparatus, the biilb A is first filled with the liquidto be compressed. This is then supported, as represented in thefigure, in the interior of the cylinder, with… … ¥ig. 60. GENERAL PROPERTIES OP MATTER, 115 eating a compression of the fluid contained in the bulb. Inorder to measure the amount of compression, the capillary tubeis graduated into parts of equal capacity, each of which bears aknown relation to the capacity of the bulb. The total amountof…
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