Napier, James, 1810-1884, Fesquet, A. A · Philadelphia : H. Carey Baird · leaf 338
When very small glass tubes are placed with their ends dipping into a solution, the fluid is observed to rise in them to a great height inversely as the hol- low diameters of the tubes, and then remain stationary; but if such tubes are placed in a vessel containing the carthamus in suspension,… … ticles, and also a circulation of the fluid through the fibre or tubes of the cotton, which indeed is true, more or less, of any solid substance so finely divided as the carthamus, and diffused in water along with fibres of cotton. In the case of precipitates, the more dense they are the smaller is…
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