Chemical Manipulation: Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry, on the Methods of Performing Experiments of Demonstration Or of Research, with Accuracy and Success

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Carey and Lea, 1831 - 689 páginas
 

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Página 64 - A solid immersed in a liquid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the liquid displaced.
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Página 67 - I can learn the weight of any little mass from one grain, or a little more, to the y^^ of a grain. For if the thing to be weighed weighs one grain, it will, when placed on one extremity of the beam, counterpoise the large gold weight at the other extremity.
Página 666 - Lime water being introduced in sufficient quantity into the inverted bell glass,1 another smaller bell glass, C, is supported! within it, as represented in this figure. Both of the bells have perforated necks. The inverted bell is furnished with a brass cap, having a stuffing-box attached to it, through which the tube D, of copper, slides air-tight.
Página 67 - ... also a number of small rings of fine brass wire made in the manner first mentioned by Mr. Lewis, by appending a weight to the wire, and coiling it with the tension of that weight round a thicker brass wire in a close spiral, after which the extremity of the spiral being tied hard with waxed thread, I put the covered wire in a vice, and applying a sharp knife which is struck...
Página 324 - Such a trough is best made of japanned copper, and supported in a wooden frame, so as to stand about 39 inches from the ground. Two depressions like small wells, should be made in the shelf, each about seven inches long, two wide, and one and a half deep; they should be placed with one of their narrowest ends about one inch and a half from the end of the shelf which is furthest from the well, and about eight inches apart. These depressions are to receive the beaks of retorts delivering gas into jars...
Página 54 - The two parts communicate at b by an extremely fine slit, which suffers air to pass, but retains sand or powder. The mouth at a is ground smooth, and can be shut so as to be air-tight by a small glass plate /. The substance whose specific gravity we wish to find is fint reduced to powder.
Página 67 - If on the contrary it weigh one grain and a fraction, it will be counterpoised by the heavy gold weight at the extremity, and one or more of the lighter ones placed in some other part of the beam. This beam...
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