 Therefore the specific gravity of a solid or a liquid body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water...  Book III - Page 84by George William Myers - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Jacob William Albert Young - 1908 - 344 pages
...ratio of the number of feet moved to the number of seconds required. The specific gravity of a solid is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. The rate of interest on an investment is the ratio of the number of dollars of interest... | |
 | James Thom Beard - Mine explosions - 1908 - 434 pages
...weight. 38. The Use of Specific Gravity. — The specific gravity of a body, solid, liquid, or gas, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of another body taken as a standard. Water is usually assumed as the standard for solids and... | |
 | Joseph Gregory Horner - Engineering - 1909 - 560 pages
...any volume of lead is 11-3 times the weight of an equal volume of water. As the specific gravity of a substance is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water, it may be determined by dividing the absolute weight, W, of a volume of the given... | |
 | Charles E. Larard, Henry A. Golding - Engineering - 1909 - 556 pages
...areas of the IP and LP pistons. Ana. 540 and 1120. 13. The specific gravity or relative density of a substance is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. Taking the weight of a pint of pure water ( = 27 '274 c. in.) as a pound and a quarter,... | |
 | John Charles Stone, James Franklin Millis - Arithmetic - 1910 - 440 pages
...circular water tank, I measured the distance around it, and found it to be 49.5ft. What was the diameter ? Specific Gravity The specific gravity of any solid...the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. One cubic foot of water weighs 62.5 lb. 1-8. The following table gives the weights... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 978 pages
...is removed. The micas exhibit this property to a marked degree. 2. The Specific Gravity of a mineral is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. It is dependent upon the weight of its molecules and the closeness of their aggregation.... | |
 | Jacob William Albert Young, Lambert Lincoln Jackson - Algebra - 1913 - 312 pages
...is usually 025 to 1000. This means that ^Д of the whole is silver. The specific gravity of a solid is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water under standard conditions. The birth rate per annum in a city is said to be 23 when... | |
 | William Brandon Gordon - Mechanics - 1914 - 296 pages
...Eqs. (40) for the center of gravity. Ex. 369. The specific gravity of a body, or its relative density, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of standard water (distilled water at 4° C.). The principle of the buoyant effort gives a method... | |
 | Cast-iron - 1915 - 750 pages
...analysis, the specific gravities of substances are frequently used. The specific gravity of a material is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of pure water. A cubic foot of pure water weighs 62.425 pounds; therefore, if 1 cubic foot of... | |
 | Thomas J. Foster - Coal mines and mining - 1916 - 1230 pages
...SPECIFIC GRAVITY, WEIGHT, AND OTHER PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS DEFINITIONS The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal bulk of pure water, at a standard temperature (62° P. = 16.670° C.). Some experimenters have used 60° F.... | |
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