Greenhill, G. (George), Sir, 1847-1927 · London and New York, Macmillan and Co. · leaf 411
nce 1 g = 15432 grains, 1 m = 3937 inches (§8). 400 SURFACE TENSION 294. A mass of liquid under no external disturbingforces will assume a spherical shape under the influenceof the superficial tension; for instance, as in Plateausexperiments, when floating immersed in another liquidof equal density… … Fig. 88. Fig. 89. The spherical shape is approximately realised withsmall drops of mercury on a table, the deviation fromsphericity being slighter as the drops are smaller; be-cause the efiect of gravity, which depends on the volume,becomes insensible compared with the capillary energy,which…
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