Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 533
therefore determine the relative specific gravity of mer-cury at such temperatures by measuring the heights of the mer-cury-columns in the legs of an inverted siphon, so arrangedthat each column may be exposed to the temperature required.When the specific gravity at two different temperatures has… … Fig. 379. represented in Pig. 379. It consisted of two glass tubes, A andB, supported vertically on an iron basement, and united belowby a capillary tube, so as to form together an inverted siphon. HEAT. 609 The two tubes were each enclosed in a metallic vessel. Thesmallest of these, D, was filled…
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