Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 149
surface which resembles inmany respects the tension in a stretched membrane. Thus,suppose a (Fig. 98) represents a molecule within a body offluid, and 5, <?, d, e,f,g a series of molecules at equal dis-tances from a, but within the range of molecular forces.It is obvious that a would, on the… … Fig. 98. though the contact be soclose that the break isimperceptible to the eye,there is no tendency forthem to unite, because theparts are still separated bya distance greater than themolecular range. Two sur-faces of glass, accurately PREXOMEXA AT TEE SURE ACE OE A LIQUID. 139 molecular range,…
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