Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 288
s are in a condition of equilibrium ; the onlydifference being, that in a liquid the equilibrium exists betweenthe attractive and repulsive forces in the liquid itself, but in thegas, between the excess of repulsive forces in the body and an ex-ternal pressure. In consequence of this condition of… … 264 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. properties which are the necessary consequence of these mechan-ical conditions must belong to gases as well as to_liquids. These,as before (119), naturally divide themselves into two classes:first, those which are independent of the action of gravity ; and,secondly, those…
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