 | Josiah P. Cooke, Jr. - 1860 - 754 páginas
...^v M • g M •-/- < -t £b.Gr. = ^=^. [54.] Hence the specific gravity of a substance is likewise the ratio of its mass to the mass of an equal volume of water. It is, therefore, like the density, a constant quantity, and does not vary with the intensity of gravity.... | |
 | J. Milnor Coit - 1886 - 120 páginas
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 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1891 - 216 páginas
...of the substance at that temperature (and pressure). The sp. gr. or rel. dens. of a gas or vapour is the ratio of its mass to the mass of an equal volume of hydrogen measured at the same temperature and pressure. The rel. dens. of a gas is commonly termed... | |
 | Ferdinand Gerhard Wiechmann - 1893 - 260 páginas
...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 Gravity. — The choice of standards of... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook - 1893 - 208 páginas
...this is made so small that throughout it the body may be treated as homogeneous. Specific Gravity. — The specific gravity of a substance is defined as the ratio of its density to the density of some standard substance such as water ; thus, if p' be the density of water,... | |
 | Augustus Jay Du Bois - 1894 - 424 páginas
...mass of a volume of water equal in volume to the body. Hence the specific mass of any body is equal to the ratio of its mass to the mass of an equal volume of water. In the English system the mass of one cubic foot of pure water at 4° C., or the point of maximum density,... | |
 | Walter George Woollcombe - 1894 - 104 páginas
...expressed by different numbers according to the units \ve employ. The spec1fic gravity 20 of a body is the ratio of its mass to the mass of an equal volume of a standard substance at a standard temperature. In the case of solids and liquids, water at 4° C is... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1897 - 160 páginas
...VAPOUR DENSITY. THE specific gravity (sp. gr.) or relative density of a solid or liquid substance is the ratio of its mass to the mass of an equal volume of some liquid taken as unity. The standard universally adopted is pure water at its maximum density.... | |
 | Isidor Traube, J. Traube, Willett Lepley Hardin - 1898 - 260 páginas
...the mass of i cc of water at 4° is considered the unit of mass. The density, then, of a body may be defined as the ratio of its mass to the mass of an equal volume of water at 4°. The specific gravity of a body is the weight of unit volume. As the ratio of the weights of... | |
 | Julius Hortvet - 1899 - 280 páginas
...defined as the amount of matter contained in a unit of volume. The relative density of a substance is the ratio of its mass to the mass of an equal volume of a standard substance. Or, since the amount of matter in a body is proportional to its weight, it is... | |
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