Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 343
the tension of the gas in the bottle will raise a columnof liquid, h, in the safety-tube, whose height will bear the sameproportion to that of the column a (Fig. 289) which the specificgravity of the liquid in the test-glass has to that in the bottle. It not unfrequently happens, that we wish to… … Fig. 292. which absorb the gas evolved from the flask A, and let us exam-ine what would be the tension of the gas in the successive jars.The gas in the jar E communicates directly with the atmospherethrough the tube o, and its tension is therefore represented bythe height of the barometer, or Ho.…
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