Mechanical and marine engineering science ... Specially written as a handbook to the Board of Trade examinations for extra-first-class engineers (1909)
Somerscales, A. N · Glasgow : J. Munro; London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent · leaf 23
om, and inasmuch as this level rises and falls withevery change in the height of the column, the scale must either bemoveable or a correction must be made, in order to get the trueheight. In one form of standard barometerthe cup at the bottom (fig. 2) is made ofglass, with a scratched line at the… … There is also a correction necessaryfor capillarity. The fact is, when anyliquid is contained in a tube, a certainattraction or repulsion is exerted (calledcapillary attraction) between the tube andliquid, which either lifts it or depresses it from its natural hydrostatic level. In the case of…
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