Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied : for the use of colleges and schools (1906)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, Edmund, 1831-1901, Reinold, A. W. (Arnold William), 1843-1921 · New York : Wood · leaf 126
lb.The compression of the air allows a small quantityof water to penetrate into the bulb, which therefore becomes heavier andsinks. If the pressure is relieved, the air in the bulb expands, expels theexcess of water which had entered it, and the apparatus, being now lighter,rises to the surface.… … Fig. 98 -119] Specific Gravity of Solids 109 116. Swimming-bladder of fishes.—^Most fishes have an aii-l)laddcrbelow the spine, wliicli is called the sichiiining-b/adder. The fish can com-pressor dilate this at pleasure by means of a muscular effort, and produce thesame effects as those just…
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