 | Alonzo Gray - Physics - 1850 - 422 pages
...weighed in air and then in water, and the loss of weight noted. Whatever it loses in water will be the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the gold. As many times, therefore, as this loss is contained in its weight ( in air, so many times heavier... | |
 | William Gregory - Chemistry, Inorganic - 1853 - 316 pages
...displaces when sinking in that fluid. Hence, if we subtract the weight in water from that in air, we obtain the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the solid. If a bit of lead weigh in air 550 grains, it will be found, when weighed in water, to be lighter, and... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Natural history - 1855 - 556 pages
...the heavier body, and the remainder added to the weight of the former in air. The quotient indicates the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the lighter body. The weight of the lighter body in air being now divided by the latter sum, its specific... | |
 | Charles Mayer Wetherill - Vinegar - 1860 - 312 pages
...solid suspended by a hair, first in air, then in water, we will have the loss of weight in water, which is the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the solid. Consequently, the weight in air divided by the loss of weight in water, will give a number which represents... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1860 - 94 pages
...the heavier body, and the remainder added to the weight of the former in air. The quotient indicates the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the lighter body. The weight of the lighter body in air being now divided by the latter sum, its specific... | |
 | Henry William Bristow - Mineralogy - 1861 - 510 pages
...in water and the weight in air, or the loss in weight it has sustained by immersion, will represent the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the substance operated on. Now, as the specific gravity of a body is the proportion which its weight bears... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - Science - 1863 - 366 pages
...taken from the opposite scale to preserve the balance. The weight which you take from the scale will be the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the piece of gold ; for the immersed body is supportr« ed with a force equal to the weight -* of the water... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1864 - 494 pages
...solid is then detached, and the weight lost by the heavier by immersion in water ascertained ; this is the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the heavier solid. This loss of weight being subtracted from the loss sustained by the combined masses,... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - Analytical chemistry - 1864 - 706 pages
...This loss of weight being subtracted from the loss sustained by the combined masses, the remainder is the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the lighter solid ; the proportion of the weight of the lighter solid to this will determine its specific... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - Analytical chemistry - 1864 - 694 pages
...from that of the heavier, and add the remainder to the weight of the former in air; we thua obtain the weight of a quantity of water equal in bulk to the lighter body, and by dividing the weight of the lighter body in air by this last-mentioned sum, the... | |
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... once what is the weight of a quantity of water, equal in bulk to the solid matter in the sand ; and by comparing this with the weight of the sand, we have its true specific gravity. 
