 | Roger Cotes - Air - 1747 - 356 pages
...balance, placed at the bottom of a large veflel full of water as reprefented in FIG. 26. For having found the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the bubble (by immerling it wholly in the water of the cylindrical glafs abovementioned) and alfo the excefs... | |
 | English essays - 1764 - 404 pages
...as much weight into the fcale as will reftore the balance to aa equipoife ; and this weight will be the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to...piece of brafs, glafs, lead, or filver, be immerfed or fufpended in different forts of fluids, its different lofles . of weight therein will fhew how much... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1764 - 322 pages
...weight into the oppofite fcale as will reftore the balance to an equipoife; and this weight will be the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to...weight of its bulk of water, and the quotient will {hew how much the quickfilver is heavier than its bulk of water. If a piece of brafs, glafs, lead,... | |
 | John Playfair - Astronomy - 1812 - 344 pages
...suppose to be nearly the same with its weight in air), and if W be its weight in water, W — W is the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the body: It follows from § 30, that the weight of any body divided by the weight of an equal bulk of... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1814 - 420 pages
...quantity of water equal in bulk to the quicksilver. Lastly, divide the weight of the quicksilver iu air, by the weight of its bulk of water, and the quotient will show how many times the quicksilver is heavier than its bulk of water. VOL- i- r % P |f If a piece... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...bulk of water; which, as air is no lei's than 800 limes lighter than water, is very nearly equal to the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the included air. A common balance is not convenient for weighing the bottles under water, without fome... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 798 pages
...water held by the narrow tube Ъ e on и graduated scale attached to it, we can find at once what is the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the solid matter in the sand, and by comparing this with the weight of the sand in air, we have its true... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Pharmaceutical chemistry - 1825 - 644 pages
...from that of the heavier body, and add the remainder to that of the former in air, we shall obtain the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the lighter body, and we have then only to divide the weight of the lighter body in air by this last mentioned... | |
 | William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - Industrial arts - 1826 - 448 pages
...water held by the narrow tube b, c, on a graduated scale attached to it, we can find at once what is the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the solid matter in the sand, and by comparing this with the weight of the sand we have its true specific... | |
 | Michael Faraday - Chemistry - 1827 - 678 pages
...of water held by the narrow tube be on a graduated scale attached to it, we can find at once what is the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the solid matter in the sand, and by comparing this with the weight of the sand, '• we have its true... | |
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... once what is the weight of a quantity of water, equal in bulk to the solid matter in the sand ; and by comparing this with the weight of the sand, we have its true specific gravity. 
