 | 1818 - 488 pages
...&c. See Jameson's Mineralogy, vol. i p. 28. 2d edit. weighing 3 oz. loses 1 by immersion in water, the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the immersed mineral is 1 oz. In saying then, that the sp. gr. of gold is 19, &c. I mean, that it is 19... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1823 - 482 pages
...water, then dividing its weight in the air by the loss of weight sustained in the liquid. This loss is the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the body. The quotient is the number sought. Nicholson's areometer serves to find these two weights with... | |
 | 1841 - 530 pages
...upper cup, in order to sink the instrument down to the mark; then //(the weight lost by immersion) is the weight of a' volume of water equal to that of the solid. Consequently *— p expresses the specific 8ATCHARUM. the name of a genus of plants of the natural... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - 1844 - 660 pages
...an equal volume of water: that is, if a mineral weighs 120 grains out of water, but 90 on emersion, it has lost 30 grains, which is the weight of a volume...mineral. The rule for the process is, therefore, Divide (he weight out of water, by the difference of weights obtained out and in water. The water employed... | |
 | George Fownes - 1845 - 498 pages
...the body of necessity displaces its own bulk — Hence, the weight lost, or supported by the water, is the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the body immersed. Whatever be the density of the substance, it will be buoyed up to this amount ; in the... | |
 | 1845 - 612 pages
...the weight of a volume of oil of turpentine equal to that of the guano. Now, 874 : 51.3: : 1000:58.7, the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the guano. Then 58.7 : 1 : : 100 : 1.7, the specific gravity of the guano. In the foregoing processes,... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - 1850 - 800 pages
...an equal volume of water : that is, if a mineral weighs 120 grains out of water, but 90 on emersion, it has lost 30 grains, which is the weight of a volume...instance 4 times as much as the water ; for 4x30 grains equals 120 grains, which is the weight of the mineral. The rule for the process is, therefore, —... | |
 | 1841 - 524 pages
...upper cup, in order to sink the instrument down to the mark; then ;/ (the weight lost by immersion) is the weight of a' volume of water equal to that of the solid. Consequently w'—p expresses the specific gravity of the solid, that of water being unity.... | |
 | Abendaño - 1852 - 722 pages
...when the solid is inserted, and the remaining space filled with liquid ; then w + ww — w, equals the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the w solid, and the specific gravity — — , . This method is 1 * W + TOW W, applicable to solids heavier... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 1272 pages
...loss of weight which it experiences in the latter case ,i«, according to the principle of Archimedes, the weight of a volume of water equal to that of "the body ; we 'have only now to divide the weight of the body in air by the weight which it has lost in... | |
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... is the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the mineral. 
