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 139
ce were plane theascending motion ceases. It is from capillarity that oil ascends in the wicks of lamps, that waterrises in woods, sponge, bibulous paper, sugar, sand, and in all bodies whichpossess pores of a perceptible size. In the cells of plants the sap rises withgreat force, for here we have… … Fig. IIS. side a means of furthering still more the ascent of a liquid. Capillarity is,moreover, the cause of the following phenomenon :—When a porous sub-stance, such as gypsum, or chalk, or even earth, is placed in a porous vesselof unbaked porcelain, and the whole is dipped in water, the water…
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