Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 705
Fig. 461. 680 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. into cubic centimetres, but it is more accurate to divide theminto millimetres and to determine afterwards the correspondingvolumes by calibration. The graduation is easily made, with thedividing machine before described, on a thin coating of wax … Fig. 462. spread over the surface of the tube, and the divisions are after-wards etched with hydrofluoric acid. The tube is then calibratedby pouring into it repeatedly the same measured quantity ofmercury through a long funnel, and after each addition accu-rately noting the division to which it…
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