stance, when in water, loses its weight altogether 1Let us try, by experiment, whether or not this is thecase. First of all I shall place a vessel -with somewater in it on one scale-pan, and balance it by weights 40 SCIENCE PRIMERS. [properties in the otlier. I now drop the substance weighing1,000… … But this is precisely the weight of the substance, andtherefore you see the substance does not really loseits weight. The weight is still there ; that is to say,the vessel with the substance in it is 1,000 grainsheavier than if the substance were not there, but thesubstance itself has its weight…
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