Gage, Alfred P. (Alfred Payson), 1836-1903 · Boston, London, Ginn · leaf 153
e in the bore considerablyabove the general level outside. If a similar tube y (Fig. 96) 1 If the glass be quite cle^,n the angle is 0. If not clean, it may reach, and evenexceed, 90°. 136 MOLAE DYNAMICS. be thrust into mercury, the mercury within the bore will bedepressed below the surface… … Fig. 96. tubes X and y is greatly exaggerated in order to show thismore plainly. The concavity and convexity of these interiorsurfaces are a necessary consequence of the angles of contactwith which these, liquids meet glass. It remains only toexplain the elevation and depression of the column of…
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