Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
d upward bythe buoyant effort of the liquid. Three casesmay arise, depending on the relative intensitiesof these forces : 1st, when the density of the bodyis greater than that of the liquid; 2d, when thedensity of the body is less than that of the liquid;and, 3d, when the density of the body and… … 94 PNEUMATICS. Fig. 22. as in the case of a hollow dish, it may float, though the density of thematerial be many times greater than that ofthe liquid. This is the case with iron ships.The Great Eastern, though it is the heaviestmovable object in the world, and made of iron,is as buoyant and light…
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