Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 273
r this purpose, we take a specific-gravitybottle and determine the weight of the bottle when filled withwater, as before described. Call this weight W^. We then in-troduce into the bottle a known weight of the solid, W, and fillup the remainder of the bottle with water. The weight of thebottle,… … rig. 241. Here, as before, it is necessary to reducethe results obtained to the standard tem-perature. (146.) Second Method. The Hydro-static Balance.—We suspend the body bya fine thread to the pan of a balance (Fig.244), and, having equipoised it by meansof a tare in the other pan, immerse itin…
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