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... tube ; required in each ; and to express in which case it is evident that the any particular number , as many tube must have a certain inclina- would have been required in tion , in order to admit a drop which each row as there were ...
... tube ; required in each ; and to express in which case it is evident that the any particular number , as many tube must have a certain inclina- would have been required in tion , in order to admit a drop which each row as there were ...
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... tubes . In the first of these methods , iron , zinc , and vitriolic acid , are the materials most commonly used : the vitriolic acid must be diluted with about five or six parts of water . Iron may be expected to yield , in the common ...
... tubes . In the first of these methods , iron , zinc , and vitriolic acid , are the materials most commonly used : the vitriolic acid must be diluted with about five or six parts of water . Iron may be expected to yield , in the common ...
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... tube of a common pump , the same force would sustain a column of any other fluid , which weighed as much as that column of water ; and hence he conclud- AFFIRMATIVE Sign , or sign of addition , is + , and is read plus , or more , or ...
... tube of a common pump , the same force would sustain a column of any other fluid , which weighed as much as that column of water ; and hence he conclud- AFFIRMATIVE Sign , or sign of addition , is + , and is read plus , or more , or ...
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... tube , one end being open and the other her- metically sealed , and quicksilver be poured in at the open end , it will be found that the spaces into which the air is compressed are always inversely as the weights by which it is loaded ...
... tube , one end being open and the other her- metically sealed , and quicksilver be poured in at the open end , it will be found that the spaces into which the air is compressed are always inversely as the weights by which it is loaded ...
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... tube which contains the ball , small bubbles , like grains of fine and its density will be very little sand , dispersed through the fluid altered by expanding through the mass , and rising upwards ; and as narrow tube ; and ...
... tube which contains the ball , small bubbles , like grains of fine and its density will be very little sand , dispersed through the fluid altered by expanding through the mass , and rising upwards ; and as narrow tube ; and ...
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