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)
^ 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, either when both are or are not moistened, as at L and P,and repelled if… … balls being moistened, the liquid rises (by capillarity) higher betweenthan on the outside of them, Avhich acts as a loaded cord to draw themtogether; while at P, both balls being dry, the water is depressed lowerbetween than outside of them, which causes them to be croivded to-gether. At R, one…
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