Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 376
surface diminishes. The value of the force which is ex-erted in molecular pressure may then be represented by ^ — B,when the surface is concave. If, lastly, the surface is convex, as KL, and wo draw K Lsymmetrical with this, if is equally evident that the active por-tion of the liquid is now K L C;… … Fig 316. 352 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. by the molecule M is true of all the molecules contained in thethin film bounded by the surfaces X Y, and X Y (Pig. 315), itfollows that, when the surface of a column of liquid is concave,it exerts a less pressure, and conversely, when the surface isconvex, it exerts…
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