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)
es and on the outside, asshown at H and J; rising higher within as the tubes are smaller, asseen at J. If the tube is over half an inch in diameter the effect ishardly observable. If mercury is employed (which does not Avet theglass) there is a depression of the surface of the liquid, both… … ATTRACTION. 41 place equally in a vacuum or compressed air. They var}^ however, withthe material of tlie tube and with tlie nature of the liquid. The attraction and repulsion observed between light bodies floatingon liquids is due to capillarity. The floating bodies are drawn near toeach other,…
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