 | 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 is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. The weight of water (62.5 pounds per cubic foot)... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1888 - 388 pages
...Solution. The process by which the answer to a question is obtained. Specific gravity of a substance. The ratio of the weight of a given volume of it to that of an equal volume of water. Square root. One of two equal factors. Stock Capital invested in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1894 - 334 pages
...Density of a liquid by Hate' $ method. (G.) General statements concerning specific gravity and density. The specific gravity of a substance is the ratio of the weight of a given volume of the substance to the weight of an equal volume of water at its maximum density. Specific gravities... | |
 | Edward Leamington Nichols - Electric power - 1894 - 332 pages
...liquid by Hare s method. (G.) General statements concerning specific gravity and density. The specifjc gravity of a substance is the ratio of the weight of a given volume of the substance to the weight of an equal volume of water at its maximum density. Specific gravities... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1896 - 490 pages
...Solution. The process by which the answer to a question is obtained. Specific gravity of a substance. The ratio of the weight of a given volume of it to the weight of an equal volume of water. Square root of a number. One of its two equal factors. Stock. Capital invested in business.... | |
 | Alfred Payson Gage - Physics - 1896 - 400 pages
...is the number which expresses how many times denser the substance is than some standard substance. The specific gravity of a substance is the ratio of the weight of a body of that substance to the weight of an equal volume of some standard. The standard adopted for... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1897 - 396 pages
...Solution. The process by which the answer to a question is obtained. Specific gravity of a substance. The ratio of the weight of a given volume of it to the weight of an equal volume of water. Square root of a number. One of its two equal factors. Stock. Capital invested in business.... | |
 | Thomas Dyson West - Cast-iron - 1897 - 594 pages
...— MELTING POINTS OF MKTALS. TABLE 69. — RELATIVE CONDUCTIVITY OF MKTALS FOR HEAT AND ELECTRICITY. SPECIFIC GRAVITY of a substance is the ratio of the weight of unit volume of the substance to the weight of the same volume of water at 4°C. DENSITY of the substance... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1898 - 424 pages
...Solution. The process by which the answer to a question is obtained. Specific gravity of a substance. The ratio of the weight of a given volume of it to the weight of an equal volume of water. Square root of a number. One of its two equal factors. Stock. Capital invested in business.... | |
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Specific Gravity. The specific gravity of a substance is the ratio of the weight of the substance to the weight of the... 
