Henderson, C. Hanford (Charles Hanford), 1861-1941, Woodhull, John F. (John Francis), 1857-1941 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 38
osmose. Dissolved solids have the same power, provided they are crystallizable. Amor-phous substances, or colloids,do not diffuse. Chemists some-times make use of this dif-ference of behavior to sepa-rate some crystallizable poison,such as arsenious acid, fromthe amorphous contents of thestomach of… … 22 PHYSICS Fig. 7. -Capillary elevation anddepression. 34. Capillarity.—If tubes of very small diameter are partlyimmersed in water or other liquid which wets them, it willbe noticed that on withdrawing them in part the leyel of the liquid in the tubes is con-siderably above that outside,and is…
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