 Specific Gravity. 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.  Advanced Arithmetic - Page 131by Elmer Adelbert Lyman - 1905 - 253 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Albert Bowser - Fluid mechanics - 1885 - 324 pages
...in indifferent equilibrium. Ans. 0 = 45° 29. 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 taken as the standard of comparison. The density of a body has been defined (Anal. Mechs., Art.... | |
 | Arthur Mason Worthington - Physics - 1886 - 328 pages
...Definition. — The relative density or specific gravity of a substance is the number which expresses the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water ; in other words — Relative density of a substance _ weight of substance weight of equal... | |
 | Sarah Maria Burnham - Gems - 1886 - 416 pages
...heavier it is than water; or it may be defined as the ratio between the weight of the substance and that of an •equal volume of some other substance taken as a standard. All solid bodies sink or float in a liquid, according as their spe•cific gravity is greater or less... | |
 | Geology - 1920 - 128 pages
...of a mineral can be closely approximated by the ease with which it is scratched with a knife blade. Specific gravity. The specific gravity of a substance...ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. The weight of water (62.5 pounds per cubic foot) is taken as one. Thus metallic lead has... | |
 | John Bascombe Lock - Forces and couples - 1888 - 278 pages
...centigrade, at which temperature pure water has its greatest density. The average density of any given body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of the standard substance. 115. DEF. A body is said to be of uniform density when the average density... | |
 | Electric engineering - 1892 - 142 pages
...for the movement to take place. Specific Gravity. — The specific gravity of a body is defined as the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of pure water at a standard temperature. Temperature. — Two bodies are said to be at the same temperature... | |
 | Ferdinand Gerhard Wiechmann - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical - 1893 - 260 pages
...shall become firmly established on a mathematical basis. CHAPTER II. SPECIFIC GRAVITY. Definition of Specific Gravity. — The specific gravity of a substance is the ratio of its mass to the mass of an equal volume of some other substance taken as unity. Standards of Specific Gravity.... | |
 | Wallace Clement Sabine - Physical measurements - 1893 - 152 pages
...surface. 5. SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF A SOLID BY NICHOLSON'S HYDROMETER. The specific gravity of a solid is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. It may be determined by means of the hydrometer, by weighing the solid first in the upper... | |
 | 1895 - 354 pages
...wire. (Answers will vary.) t5. Specific gravity is the ratio of the weight of u given substance to the weight of an equal volume of some other substance taken as a standard. 7. Momentum is the power a body has to resist change in the direction of its motion. if two trains... | |
 | Melvin E. Crowell - Physics - 1897 - 248 pages
...more in water, 89 alone, or 89 and 211 together? Explain. 132. The weight of a substance divided by the weight of an equal volume of some other substance taken as a standard is its specific gravity. Using water as a standard, find from the data obtained in 124-131 the specific... | |
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