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" The ratio of the mass of a unit volume of a substance to the mass of the same volume of a standard substance at a standard temperature. Water at 39.2° F is the standard substance usually referred to. "
Vocational Mathematics for Girls - Page 349
by William Henry Dooley - 1917 - 369 pages
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Physics for High School Students

Henry Smith Carhart, Horatio Nelson Chute - Physics - 1901 - 486 pages
...and m = vd. (%*) vd 141. The Specific Gravity of a body is the ratio of the mass of any volume of it to the mass of the same volume of pure water at 4° C. Specific gravity is, therefore, only the relative density as compared with water. It is also evident...
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The School Bulletin and New York State Educational Journal, Volume 30

Education - 1904 - 350 pages
...distance the pole moves measures the strength of the current. 9. (a) The npward pressure of a liquid. (6) The ratio of the mass of any volume of a substance to the mase of the same volume of pure water at 4° C. 10. (a) Bubbles of hydrogen gas will rise from the...
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Physics for College Students

Henry Smith Carhart - Physics - 1910 - 644 pages
...155. Specific Gravity. — The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of the mass of any volume of it to the mass of the same volume of pure water at 4° C. Specific gravity is, therefore, only the relative density as compared with water. The specific gravity...
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The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 8

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1038 pages
...absolute density; the term relative density or specific Crawly denotes the ratio of the mass of a certain volume of a substance to the mass of the same volume of some standard subslancc. Since the weights used in conjunction with a balance arc really standard masses,...
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Con to Edw

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1038 pages
...absolute density; the term relative density or specific gravity denotes the ratio of the mass of a certain volume of a substance to the mass of the same volume of some standard substance. Since the weights used in conjunction with a balance are really standard masses,...
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Webster's Elementary-school Dictionary: Abridged from Webster's New ...

Noah Webster - English language - 1914 - 728 pages
...1. Quality or state of being dense ; — opposed to rarity. 2. The ratio of mass to bulk or volume ; ratio of the mass of any volume of a substance to the mass of an equal volume of some standard substance, as water, or hydrogen or air. dent (u*8nt), N. A slight...
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Vocational Mathematics

William Henry Dooley - Mathematics - 1915 - 364 pages
...EXAMPLES 1. One cubic foot of fresh water at 62.5° F. weighs 62.355 Ib., or approximately 62.4 Ib. What is the weight of 1 cubic inch ? What is the weight...to the mass of the same volume of pure water at 4° G. or 39.1° F. It is found by dividing the weight of a known volume of a substance in liquid by the...
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Experimental Science: An Elementary Course of Physics and Chemistry

Sir Richard Gregory, Arthur Thomas Simmons - Chemistry - 1920 - 360 pages
...CHAPTER IV. Density. -^Equal volumes of different substances have different masses. Relative density or specific gravity is the ratio of the mass of any volume of a substance to the mass of an equal volume of water. T, , . . , . mass of substance RelatIve densIty = ----- - ---------- •...
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Bulletin

Mines and mineral resources - 1920 - 1572 pages
...apparatus for determining the specific gravity or relative density of a substance. (Stamlard) Density. 1. The ratio of the mass of any volume of a substance to the mass of an equal volume of some standard substance. For liquids and solids the standard substance Is water....
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A Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry, Issue 95

Albert Hill Fay - Mineral industries - 1920 - 770 pages
...apparatus for determining the specific gravity or relative density of a substance. (Standard) Density. 1. The ratio of the mass of any volume of a substance to the mass of an equal volume of some standard substance. For liquids and solids the standard substance is water....
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