Sykes, Walter J. (Walter John), 1842-1906, Ling, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1861-1937 · London, C. Griffin and Company, limited · leaf 42
TREATISE ON BREWING shot or mercury until, when placed in water, it sinks to the point marked io. The volume of water displaced will be equal to that of the tube from figure io to its lower extremity, and this volume of water will have the same weight as the tube and its contents have when weighed… … Fig. 3. — Experimental it has a specific gravity twice that of water. If, on the Hydrometer. other hand, the tube be placed in a liquid specifically lighter than water, it will sink farther than the mark 10. Let it be placed in a liquid in which it sinks to the mark 12. Obviously, then, twelve…
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