Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 256
equi-librium are inversely proportionalto the specific gravities of theliquids. This principle may be il-lustrated by means of the apparatusrepresented in Fig. 225. It consistsof two tubes, m and w, connectedtogether by a smaller tube below.The lower portion of both tubes isfilled with mercury, and… … rig. 225. 232 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. last section, that the liquid below this line is in equilibrium ;and hence it follows, that the column of water B A is just bal-anced by the column of mercury D C. On measuring these twoheights, it will be found that D C is thirteen and a half timessmaller than A B ;…
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