 | Frederic A. Adams - 1846 - 230 lehte
...two first lines, they find it 98 rods ; how many acres does the triangle contain ? Specific Gravity. The specific gravity of a body, is its weight compared with the weight of an equal bulk of water. To find the specific gravity of a body heavier than water. Weigh the body in water, and out... | |
 | Thomas Baker - 1851 - 188 lehte
...level with the outlet B. ON SPECIFIC GRAVITIES AND THE EQUILIBRIUM OF FLOATING BODIES. 239. DBF. — The specific gravity of a body is its weight compared with the weight of some other body of the same magnitude. Thus, silver has about I0i times the specific gravity of water,... | |
 | T. Baker - 1851 - 160 lehte
...level with the outlet B. ON SPECIFIC GEAVITIES AND THE EQUILIBRIUM OF FLOATING BODIES. 239. DBF. — The specific gravity of a body is its weight compared with the weight of some other body of the same magnitude. Thus, silver has about IQi times the specific gravity of water,... | |
 | Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1851 - 176 lehte
...level with the outlet B. ON SPECIFIC GRAVITIES AND THE EQUILIBRIUM OF FLOATING BODIES. 239. DBF. — The specific gravity of a body is its weight compared with the weight of some other body of the same magnitude. Thus, silver has about 10^ times the specific gravity of water,... | |
 | T. Baker - 1851 - 172 lehte
...level with the outlet B. ON SPECIFIC GEAVITIES AND THE EQUILIBRIUM OF FLOATING BODIES. 239. DBF.—The specific gravity of a body is its weight compared with the weight of some other body of the same magnitude. Thus, silver has about 10£ times the specific gravity of water,... | |
 | Alfred White Sprague - 1857 - 426 lehte
...body. If this quantity be heavier than the solid, it will float ; but, if lighter, the solid will sink. The specific gravity of a body is its weight compared with the weight of an equal bulk of some fluid. Pure water is usually taken as the standard for solids, and air for gases. If the weight... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 lehte
...subject of specific gravity. Can either of you give a concise definition of specific gravity ? H29 a body is its weight, compared with the weight of an equal bulk of pure water— water being taken as a standard. Mr. M. Can you tell me, then, how the specific gravity of a solid... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 lehte
...gravity ? 1. John. I have learned from the book on Natural Philosophy which I have been studying, that the specific gravity of a body is its weight, compared with the weight of an equal bulk of pure water — water being taken as a standard. Mr. M. Can you tell me, then, how the specific gravity of a solid... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 lehte
...adopted for this purpose is water; and therefore, when we speak of the specific gravity of a body, it is its weight, compared with the weight of an equal bulk of water, which is usually implied! Suppose now, FIG. 41. for example, that we wish to find the specific... | |
 | Edward John Chapman - 1864 - 260 lehte
...employed, both must of course be attended to in the determination of the hardness. Specific Gravity.—This is also a character of great value in the determination...displaced water, or, in other words, of a volume of water equal to the volume of the mineral. Now, the specific gravity of pure water, at a temperature of about... | |
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The specific gravity of a body is its weight compared with the weight of an equal bulk of pure water. In... 
