The elements of natural philosophy : copiously illustrated by familiar experiments and containing descriptions of instruments, with directions for using : designed for the use of schools and academies (1856)
Sprague, A. W. (Alfred White), 1821-1891 · Boston : Phillips, Sampson & Company · leaf 72
wly into the receiver again. Thebottle is now filled with w^ater, nearly freedfrom air. Invert and place a globule of mer-cury in the cup, as before, and arrange thewhole in the glass cylinder, as in the last ex-periment. Work down the screw-plug, andthe water in the small bottle now undergoesno… … SPECIFIC GRAVITY. 53. If a solid body be accurately weighed in air, and thenimmersed in a vessel filled to the brim with water, and weighedagain, it will be found to have lost in freight, or to be buoyedup by a force exactly equal to the weight of the water displacedby the solid, and which has…
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