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 318
ing and therefore corrects itself. Itconsists of a U-shaped glass tube which is bent round at one extremity andterminates in a long cylindrical bulb, B. At the other end of the U tube isa conical bulb, C. The bend of the tube from a to / contains mercury. A 1 A -h • ^ - - - ~ M^ ■-. \ t - : ;■ ^… … Fig. 310 Alcohol occupies the bulb B and extends as far as to the top of themercury b ; above a^ again, is alcohol which occupies a portion of the bulb C.The rest of C contains air and alcohol vapour. Theliquid—alcohol, mercury, alcohol—is thus continuousfrom the surface in C to the other end of…
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