On the Connection of the Physical SciencesHarper & brothers, 1846 - 460 pages |
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Page vii
... Liquids by Pressure - Intensity of the Co- hesive Force - Effects of Gravitation - Effects of Cohesion - Minuteness of the ultimate Atoms of Matter - Limited Height of the Atmosphere- Theory of Definite Proportions and Relative Weight ...
... Liquids by Pressure - Intensity of the Co- hesive Force - Effects of Gravitation - Effects of Cohesion - Minuteness of the ultimate Atoms of Matter - Limited Height of the Atmosphere- Theory of Definite Proportions and Relative Weight ...
Page 96
... Liquids by Pressure - Intensity of the Co- hesive Force - Effects of Gravitation - Effects of Cohesion - Minuteness of the ultimate Atoms of Matter - Limited Height of the Atmosphere- Theory of Definite Proportions and Relative Weight ...
... Liquids by Pressure - Intensity of the Co- hesive Force - Effects of Gravitation - Effects of Cohesion - Minuteness of the ultimate Atoms of Matter - Limited Height of the Atmosphere- Theory of Definite Proportions and Relative Weight ...
Page 99
... liquids and solids ; but the pressure may be so great as to reduce an aëriform fluid to a liquid , and a liquid to a solid . Dr. Faraday has reduced some of the gases to a liquid state by very great compression ; but although ...
... liquids and solids ; but the pressure may be so great as to reduce an aëriform fluid to a liquid , and a liquid to a solid . Dr. Faraday has reduced some of the gases to a liquid state by very great compression ; but although ...
Page 100
... liquid , or aëriform fluid , is subject to the law of gravitation . The weight of the atmosphere , of gases and vapor , shows that they consist of gravitating particles . In liquids the cohesive force is not sufficiently powerful to ...
... liquid , or aëriform fluid , is subject to the law of gravitation . The weight of the atmosphere , of gases and vapor , shows that they consist of gravitating particles . In liquids the cohesive force is not sufficiently powerful to ...
Page 108
... liquid columns depends not only upon the force of gravitation , but upon the cohesive force , or reciprocal attraction between the molecules of the liquid and those of the tube containing it . This peculiar action of the cohesive force ...
... liquid columns depends not only upon the force of gravitation , but upon the cohesive force , or reciprocal attraction between the molecules of the liquid and those of the tube containing it . This peculiar action of the cohesive force ...
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