Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 700
° would have given too large a result, and one whichwould have been the more enoneous as the temperature was lower. An error of thesame kind, made in the determination of the specific gravity of the vapor of sulphur,introduced an anomaly into the simple law of equivalent volumes which has… … Kg. 458. We take a light glass globe having a capacity of from 300 to 500 ^^.«,and draw the neck out in the flame of a blast lamp, so as to leave only afine opening, as shown in Fig. 458 at a. We then weigh the globe, which gives us the weight W of [214]. Thesecond step is to ascertain the weight…
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