 | Henry Smith Carhart - 1917 - 674 pages
...2) \ DENSITY AND SPECIFIC GRAVITY COMPARED 70. Specific Gravity. — Tlie 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 11.36 times as much as a cubic inch of water,... | |
 | Henry Smith Carhart, Horatio Nelson Chute - Physics - 1917 - 572 pages
...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 11.36 times as much as a cubic inch of water,... | |
 | American Society of Naval Engineers - Marine engineering - 1919 - 1180 pages
...Fahrenheit. This decimal fraction is known as the specific gravity of the oil, which may be defined as the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of distilled water. For example, if a certain volume of oil weighs 21 grams and the same volume of... | |
 | Frederick Foreman Good - Physics - 1920 - 290 pages
...of a cubic inch of mercury compare with the weight of a cubic inch of water? (Specific gravity of a substance is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water.) 3. According to your measurements, how many cubic inches of water would be required to balance... | |
 | Theodore Lindquist - Business & Economics - 1920 - 256 pages
...cork is —-— = 0.24. Specific gravity is given as a 62. o decimal. The specific gravity of a gas is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of either air or hydrogen, at the same pressure as the gas. Thus, the specific gravity of coal-gas... | |
 | Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale, Willard R. Pyle - Science - 1920 - 542 pages
...whole weight. 30. Specific gravity of a heavy solid. The specific gravity of a body is by definition the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water (§ 17). Since a submerged body displaces a volume of water equal to its own volume, however... | |
 | Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Harry Oliver Buckman - Soils - 1922 - 612 pages
...SEPARATES 1 Specific gravity is expressed as a ratio of the weight of any volume of a substance to the weight of an equal volume of some other substance taken as a standard unit. Liquids and solids are usually compared with water at its maximum density (4° C.). "The specific... | |
 | o. a. witte - 1922 - 656 pages
...permanent record of the readings made for future reference. The specific gravity of the electrolyte is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. Acid is heavier than water, and hence the heavier the electrolyte, the more acid it contains,... | |
 | American Bureau of Engineering, Otto A. Witte - Automobiles - 1922 - 616 pages
...permanent record of the readings made for future reference. The specific gravity of the electrolyte is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. Acid is heavier than water, and hence the heavier the electrolyte, the more acid it contains,... | |
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The specific gravity of a substance is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other substance taken as a standard. 
