 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 820 pages
...Distribution of Animals' (1876). CHARLES EMERSON BEECHER, Professor of Paleontology, Yale University. Specific Gravity. The specific gravity of a. body is the ratio of the mass of that body to the mass of an equal volume of some standard substance which is arbitrarily... | |
 | Frank Rutley - Mineralogy - 1916 - 428 pages
...mineral to the surface, leaving other sulphides and gangue material at the bottom of the liquid. IV. SPECIFIC GRAVITY. The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of the weight of the body to that of an equal volume of water. This latter weight varies with the temperature,... | |
 | Henry Smith Carhart, Horatio Nelson Chute - Physics - 1917 - 572 pages
...or in symbols, density = mass volume.' d = —; whence m = dv, and v = — • vd (Equation 2) 70. Specific Gravity. — The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. If, for example, a cubic inch of lead weighs... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1920 - 934 pages
...OF SPECIES; HYBRIDITY. SPECIES, Extinction of. See EXTINCTION OF SPECIES. SPECIFIC DUTIES. See DUTY. SPECIFIC GRAVITY. The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of the mass of that body to the mass of an equal volume of some standard substance which is arbitrarily... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1920 - 934 pages
...OF SPECIES; HYBRIDITY. SPECIES, Extinction of. See EXTINCTION OF SPECIES. SPECIFIC DUTIES. See DUTY. SPECIFIC GRAVITY. The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of the mass of that body to the mass of an equal volume of some standard substance which is arbitrarily... | |
 | Elwood S. Moore - Coal - 1922 - 510 pages
...of coal in the trade, but the chemical composition is the determining factor in the value of coal. Specific gravity. — The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water at 4° C. When the average specific gravity of... | |
 | Frederick Edmund Sears - Physics - 1922 - 684 pages
...grams per cubic centimeter is numerically equal to its specific gravity. 32. Summary 1. DEFINITION OF SPECIFIC GRAVITY The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of the weight of the body to the weight of an equal volume of water, or a Specific gravity = ———... | |
 | Frederick Edmund Sears - Physics - 1927 - 588 pages
...is equal in weight to the weight of the body. Wt. of body=Wt. of liquid displaced 16. DEFINITION OF SPECIFIC GRAVITY The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of the weight of the body to the weight of an equal volume of water, or a Specific gravity = - Weight... | |
 | Michael Faraday - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 182 pages
...that solutions are results deserving of the name chemical compounds' (Faraday, 1816-18, pp. 87 & 90). Specific Gravity 'The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a conventional standard ...... | |
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SPECIFIC GRAVITY. THE Specific Gravity of a body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a standard. 
