 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 462 pages
...the. authority to which he belongs, are not forgotten. .KBPULSION, that property in bodies, by which, if they are placed just beyond the sphere of each other's attraction they mutually fly from each' other. By repulsion a fine needle will lie on water without apparently... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 476 pages
...the authority to which he belongs, are not forgotten. REPULSION, that property in bodies, by which, if they are placed just beyond the sphere of each other's attraction they mutually fly from each, other. By repulsion a fine needle will lie on water without apparently... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 378 pages
...wilhout auricles. There are five genera, viz. Draco Lacerta Rana Siren Tertudo. REPULSION, in physics, that property in bodies, whereby, if they are placed...attraction of cohesion, they mutually fly from each other. Thus, if an oily substance lighter than water, be placed on the surface thereof, or if a piece of iron... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 910 pages
...of driving oti I'rom itself (Arbutlinot). REPULSION, in physics, tbat property in bodies, when-by, if they are placed just beyond the sphere of each...attraction of cohesion, they mutually fly from each other. Thus, if an oily substance, lighter than water, be placed on the surface thereof, or if a piece of... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 376 pages
...without auricles. There are five genera, viz. Draco Lacerta Rana Siren Tertudo, REPULSION, in physics, that property in bodies, whereby, if they are placed...attraction of cohesion, they mutually fly from each other. Thus, if an oily substance lighter than water, be placed on the surface thereof, or if a piece of iron... | |
 | James Mitchell - Mathematics - 1823 - 666 pages
...tcosaedron, by 20 triangles. RELATION, i:i Mathematics, is the same us KATIO. RKPULSION, in Physics, that property in bodies, whereby, if they are placed just beyond the spheres of each other's attraction of cohesion, they mutually recede and fly off. Thus, if any oily... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 pages
...another uf a different density. REPULSION, in physieks, that property in bodies, whereby, if they arc placed just beyond the sphere of each other's attraction of cohesion, they mutually fly from each other. RESISTANCE, in philosophy, denotes, positc direction to another, so as to destroy or diminish its effects.... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Astronomy - 1829 - 312 pages
...body's falling obliquely out of ono medium into another of a different density. REPULSION, in physicks, that property in bodies, whereby, if they are placed...other's attraction of cohesion, they mutually fly from eacl other. at tho equinox, where the Bun intersects and rises above the equator, have these names... | |
 | Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1835 - 938 pages
...The coagulum prepared from the stomach of a calf, employed in making cheese, REPULSION, in Physics, that property in bodies, whereby if they are placed...sphere of each other's attraction of cohesion, they materially recede and fly off. Thus, if any oily substance lighter than water be placed upon its surface,... | |
 | Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1836 - 942 pages
...The coagulum prepared from the stomach of a calf, employed in making cheese. REPULSION, in Physics, that property in bodies, whereby if they are placed...sphere of each other's attraction of cohesion, they materially recede and fly off. Thus, if any oily substance lighter than water be placed upon its surface,... | |
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REPULSION. 1. REPULSION is that property in bodies, whereby, if they are placed just beyond the sphere of each other's attraction of cohesion, they mutually fly from each other. 2. OIL refuses to mix with water, from the repulsion between the particles... 
