 | Josiah Thomas Scovell - 1894 - 412 pages
...grains: in water they together weighed 1,460, the loss in weight of the two being 476 grains, which is the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of both bodies. Then weighing the lead by itself in water, it is found to lose 152 grains, and this subtracted... | |
 | William John Hopkins - 1894 - 178 pages
...weight of a body in a vacuum and then find its weight when suspended in water, the difference will give the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the body. We shall then have all the necessary data for determining the specific gravity of the body.... | |
 | Virgil Coblentz - 1894 - 514 pages
...under the funnel ; the weight lost will represent the volume of the solid, or, in other words, will be the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the solid. SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF SOLIDS SOLUBLE IN WATER. — We proceed exactly in the same manner as... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook, Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook - 1895 - 682 pages
...is greater than h. Thus I is greater than 2ft, or W+ W l au (W+Wtf „ or J —=-* > 2aou. Now 2aaw is the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the rod, let this be W, then the condition for stability is that (W + WJ* is greater than WW If the... | |
 | Sir Richard Glazebrook - 1895 - 248 pages
...the centre of gravity. Hence y i« greater than h. Thus ( is greater than 2ft, or 2aW a 2aa Now 2aau is the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the rod, let this be FF", then the condition for stability is that (W+ Wtf is greater than WW If the... | |
 | Charles Caspari - 1895 - 724 pages
...; or the given weight of a liquid may be divided at once by its specific gravity, which will yield the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the liquid, aud then by finding the volume of such a weight of water the volume of the liquid is at... | |
 | 1897 - 672 pages
...the point c to the water level. Represent the weight now in the pan by W. The difference W — zt' is the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the body. Hence, SP- Gr- =feEXAMPLE. — The weight necessary to sink the hydrometer to the point c... | |
 | 1897 - 638 pages
...This seoond weighing will be less than the first weight found, the difference in the two weights being the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the potatoes ; and from these two weights the specific gravity is easily calculated from the formula... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1897 - 346 pages
...the weight of one cubic inch of water. That is, the upward pressure exceeds the downward pressure by the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the body. FIG.IW. 220 acts against gravity ; that is, the water presses the body up with a greater... | |
 | 1897 - 366 pages
...the weight of one cubic inch of water. That is, the upward pressure exceeds the downward pressure by the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the body. FIG' !07' 208 acts against gravity ; that is, the water presses the body up with a greater... | |
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... the ratio of the ovendry weight of a sample to the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the sample at some specific moisture content, as green, air-dry, or ovendry. 
