Gage, Alfred P. (Alfred Payson), 1836-1903, Fessenden, C · Toronto : W.J. Gage · leaf 96
in salt water with that in fresh water. Can you account for the difter-ence? Throw a piece of iron into mercury. It floats on the mercurylike cork on water. Fill a vessel with carbonic-acid gas; blow a soap-bubble, and drop it into the vessel. It will not sink in the vessel, butrolls over the side,… … 80 DYNAMICS, § 61. Why a solid is buoyed up by a fluid, and withhow great a force it is buoyed up. — Suppose dcba (Fig.65) to be a cubical block of marble immersed in a liquid. It isobvious that the downward pressure upon Fig. 65. the surface da is equal to the weight of thecolumn of liquid eclao.…
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