Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 275
s, shiftthe piece of sulphur to the pan C, and replace the instrument inthe water. It will not, of course, sink to the fixed point; be-cause the piece of sulphur, which is now submerged, is buoyedup by a force equal to the weight of its volume of water. If,now, we add weights to the pan A, until… … Fig. 246. THE THREE STATES OF MATTER, 251 weights described above by C, W, and W, we have in every case(^Sp. Gr.~) = —=—. If the instrument is to be used for sub-stances lighter than -water, a perforated cover is adapted to thepan (7, to prevent them from rising to the surface of the liquid. 2.…
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