Andrews, Ernest John, 1863-, Howland, Howard Newell, 1865- joint author · New York, London, The Macmillan company · leaf 125
This instrument de-pends upon the fact that a floating bodydisplaces its own weight of the liquid inwhich it floats. In a light liquid it willsink to a greater depth than in a heavyone, in order to displace its weight of theliquid ; and in common practice hydrom-eters are so graduated that one can… … Fig. 56. §§ 181-182] SPECIFIC GRAVITY 111 scale, and as it is placed in the denser liquid, it will floathigher than in water, and the mark which appears at thesurface of the liquid indicates the specific gravity of thatliquid. In liquids less dense than water the instrumentused has the mark…
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