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 135
Fig. 103. Fig. 105. dipped into a liquid which wets them- the liquid will rise between them.The elevation will be greatest at the line of contact of the plates, andfrom hence gradually less, the surface taking the form of an equilateralhyperbola. If a drop of water be placed within a conical glass… … -134] Tension of the Free Surface of Liquids. 117 (fig. 104), and will tend to move towards the vertex. But if the drop be ofmercury it will have a convex meniscus at each end (fig. 105), and will tendto move from the vertex. 134. Tension of the free surface of liquids.—The great mobility which…
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