Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 122
elieved, theair in the bulb expands, expels the excess of waterwhich had entered it, and the apparatus, beingnow lighter, rises to the surface. The experimentmay also be simplified by replacing the brass capand piston by a cover of sheet india-rubber, whichFig, go. is tightly tied over the mouth ;… … -120] Specific Gravity of Solids. 105 press or dilate this at pleasure by means of a muscular effort, and producethe same effects as those just described—that is, it can either rise or sink inwater. 118. Swimming:.—The human body is lighter, on the whole, than anequal volume of water : it…
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