A system of natural philosophy, designed for the use of schools and academies (1845)
Moffat, J[ohn] M. [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, E. C. Biddle · leaf 167
ll liquids will not rise to the same height in the same tube, forwater will rise higher in a capillary glass tube than alcohol, andneither of these liquids will rise at all in the finest metallic pipe,nor in a glass tube, if the inside of it be greasy. Mercury, on thecontrary, will not rise in a… … From what exhibition of the principle is its name derived ? How may the progressive increase of capillary attraction be experi-mentally exhibited ? Is the same amount of capillary attraction exhibited by a solid towardsall sorts of liquids ? CAPILLARY ATTRACTIOX. 165 the effect of cohesive…
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