 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...called impenetrability which is common to air as well as to matter generally. By virtue of this property no two bodies can occupy the same place at the same time. What we term an empty bottle, is a bottle full of air; and if it be required to nil it with water,... | |
 | Alonzo Bowen Chapin - Anglican orders - 1842 - 418 pages
...that there should be but one Church within a given space. It is an axiom in the physical world, that no two bodies can occupy the same place, at the same time. So also it must be with the Church, if that be a perfect body. Hence, the notion that it is better... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1848 - 126 pages
...possesses impenetrability. It is obvious to the senses, as far as regards solids and liquids, that no two bodies can occupy the same place at the same time ; in order that one body should occupy the place of another, it is obviously necessary that the second... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - Pneumatics - 1852 - 158 pages
...possesses impenetrability. It is obvious to the senses, as far as regards solids and liquids, that no two bodies can occupy the same place at the same time ; in order that one body should occupy the place of another, it is obviously necessary that the second... | |
 | William Guy Peck - Mechanics - 1859 - 368 pages
...extension, length, breadth, and height. The form of a body is its figure or shape. Impenetrability. 16. Impenetrability is that property by virtue of which no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. 'The particles of one body may be thrust aside by those of another, as when... | |
 | Sermons - 1860 - 632 pages
...whatever, it would finally subvert His Kingdom altogether in the earth. It is an axiom in physics, that no two bodies can occupy the same place at the same time. Every spiritual existence fills some sphere. And it may be equally said that no two spirits precisely... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, William Guy Peck - Physics - 1871 - 516 pages
...Form, Impenetrability, Inertia, Porosity, Divisibility, Compressibility, Dilatability, and Elasticity. Magnitude and Form. 6. The MAGNITUDE of a body is...of the resulting mixture is less than a quart. This diminution of volume arises from the particles of one of the fluids insinuating themselves between... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, William Guy Peck - Physics - 1871 - 510 pages
...likewise be of the same form and yet be of very different magnitudes. Impenetrability. ^« BfpKNirnuBinxv is that property by virtue of which no two bodies...the same place at the same time. This property is self evident, although phenomena are oh* served which would seem to conflict with it. Thus, when a... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 280 pages
...1,600 cubic inches of steam when boiled. 2. Impenetrability. — By this term is meant the fact that no two bodies can occupy the same place at the same time. It does not mean that bodies are impenetrable ; but, simply, that every body occupies some portion... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1881 - 556 pages
...pounds av. " Myriagram (Mg.) — 22.046 " " Quintal (Q.) = 220.4(J " " " Tonneau (T.) = 2204.6 " " 14. Impenetrability is that property by virtue of which...of the resulting mixture is less than a quart. This diminution of volume arises from the particles of one of the fluids insinuating themselves between... | |
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IMPENETRABILITY is that property by virtue of which no two bodies can occupy the same place at the same time. This property is self-evident, although phenomena are observed which would seem to conflict with it. Thus, when a pint of alcohol is mixed with... 
