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 314
ommunicating vessels, the heightsof two columns of liquid in equilibrium are inversely as their densities (108),a principle independent of the diameters of the vessels, and therefore oftheir expansions. The apparatus consists of two glass tubes, A and B (fig. 301), joined bya capillary tube and… … Fig. 30X. smaller, D, is filled with ice ; the other, E, containing oil, can be heated bythe furnace, which is represented in section so as to show the case. Mercuiyis poured into the tubes A and B ; it remains at the same level in both, aslong as they are at the same temperature, but rises in B in…
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