 | 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 the quickfilver. Laftly, divide the weight of the quickfilver in air by the weight of its bulk of water,... | |
 | 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 the quickfilver. Laftly, divide the weight of the quickfilver in air, by the weight of its bulk of water,... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1776 - 546 pages
...weight into the oppofite fcale as will reItore the balance to an equipoife -, and this •weight will ba the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the quickfilver. Laftly, divide the weight of the quickfilver in air, by the weight of its bulk of water,... | |
 | John Playfair - Astronomy - 1812 - 344 pages
...(which we may 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 water,... | |
 | 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
...of 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
...of 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... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1827 - 600 pages
...of water held by the narrow tube, br, 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... | |
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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. 
