Experimental science. Elementary, practical and experimental physics (1890)
Hopkins, George M. (George Milton), 1842-1902 · New York, Munn & co. · leaf 80
ithout producing any effect, buton dropping into it a quartz crystal, or in some other wayslightly scratching the inner surface of the flask at the bot-tom, the flask at once goes to pieces. The action may becompared to the destructifm of a superstructure of masonryby weakening or destroying the… … 58 EXPERIMENTAL SCIENXE. readily stand steam pressure, but which, when scratchedeven imperceptibly on the inner surfaces, will break. Adhesion is the term applied to the attraction betweenthe surfaces of two bodies. In the experiment illustratedby Fig. 42 the water adheres to the disk, and the…
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