Experimental science. Elementary, practical and experimental physics (1890)
Hopkins, George M. (George Milton), 1842-1902 · New York, Munn & co. · leaf 81
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… … >r\*V^!S\ Bologna Flask. tributed on the surface of the water, there can be no adhe-sion. Two pieces of plate glass pressed firmly together adherestrongly. This experiment succeeds in a vacuum, showingthat atmospheric pressure plays no part in holding theglasses in contact. In the arts, examples…
Physics · Lantern projection · Electric apparatus and appliances
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