A laboratory course in experimental physics (1896)
Loudon, W. J. (William James), McLennan, John Cunningham, joint author · New York and London, Macmillan and Co. · leaf 42
d. We thus see that the particles at, or near, the surface of aliquid are subjected to attractions which tend to draw them intothe main body, and the effect on the whole mass is preciselythe same as if it were surrounded by 3 thin elastic membrane. In the case of liquid films, and soap bubbles we… … Fig. 23. from each other by measuring the radii of bubbles just beforethey break, and by noting the pressures to which they are sub-jected ; but probably it can best be found in the case of liquidswhich wet glass by the use of capillary tubes. Figure 22shows a glass vessel nearly filled with such a…
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