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)
-tude, assumed as a standard, or its relative Aveight. Distilled water, at60° F., is taken as the standard for solids and liquids. If a cubicinch of gold, for example, weighs 19 ounces, and a cubic inch of water1 ounce, it shows that the relative Aveight of Avater and gold is as 1to 19; or, that… … or a fibre of silk to the scale-beam, and Aveighed out of Avater, in theair, as shoAvn in the figure, Avhere its Aveight is 9 pounds. It is thenweighed in AAater (by lengthening the string), Avhere its Aveightis 6 pounds, shoAving that the loss is 3 pounds. The bulk of theAvater displaced (shoAvn…
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