Elementary natural philosophy : designed for high schools and academies (1881)
Griffin, La Roy F. (La Roy Freese), 1844-1916 · Philadelphia : Sower, Potts & Co. · leaf 70
s of a glass cylinder,A, containing the liquid to be com-pressed, with a fine tube, the end ofwhich, 0, dips beneath the surface ofmercury. This is then placed in astrong glass cylinder, which is thenfilled with water. At the top is a screw,which moves a piston downward. Asthe screw advances, the… … Fisr. 60. *See Section 23C.tSec Section 327. SPECIFIC GRAVITY. 61 By this means, a pressure of twenty-four atmosphereshas been found to diminish water about eleven thousandthsof its volume. When the pressure was removed, the waterresumed its original bulk. Hence it is inferred that liquidsare…
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