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 25
water or mercury may be forcedthrough the pores of wood by replacing the leather in the above experiment by a disc of wood cut perpendicularly to thefibres. When a piece of chalk is thrown into water, air-bubbles at once rise tothe surface, in consequence of the air in the pores of the chalk being… … 8 On Matter, Force, and Motion. [13- The porosity of agate, flint, marble is evident from the fact that they arepenetrated by liquids such as oil, on which, indeed, the artificial colorationof these minerals depends. The porosity of gold was demonstrated by the celebrated Florentineexperiment made…
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