... that the rising of the pith was only due to currents of air, and that at this near approach to a vacuum the residual air was too highly rarefied to have power in its rising to overcome the inertia of the straw beam and the pith balls. A more delicate... Quarterly Journal of Science: 1874 - Seite 2731874Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1774 - 628 Seiten
...the straw beam and the pith balls. A more delicate instrument would doubtless show traces of movement at a still nearer approach to a vacuum ; but it seemed evident that when the last trace of air had been Action of lient on Gravitating Masses. removed from the tube surrounding the balance (when the balance... | |
| 1775 - 638 Seiten
...the straw beam and the pith balls. A more delicate instrument would doubtless show traces of movement at a still nearer approach to a vacuum ; but it seemed...the balance was suspended in empty space only— the pith ball would remain motionless, wherever the hot body were applied to it. 31. I continued exhausting.... | |
| 1875 - 632 Seiten
...the straw beam and the pith balls. A more delicate instrument would doubtless show traces of movement at a still nearer approach to a vacuum ; but it seemed...balance was suspended in empty space only — the pith ball would remain motionless, wherever the hot body were applied to it. 31. I continued exhausting.... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1874 - 644 Seiten
...the straw beam and the pith balls. A more delicate instrument would doubtless show traces of movement at a still nearer approach to a vacuum ; but it seemed...continued exhausting. On next applying heat, the result howed that I was far from having discovered the law governing these phenomena; the pith ball rose steadily,... | |
| 1875 - 806 Seiten
...the straw beam and the pith-balls. A more delicate instrument would doubtless show traces of movement at a still nearer approach to a vacuum ; but it seemed...pith-ball would remain motionless, wherever the hot body was applied to it. I continued exhausting. On next applying heat underneath, the result showed that... | |
| James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1875 - 594 Seiten
...the straw beam and the pith balls. A more delicate instrument would doubtless show traces of movement at a still nearer approach to a vacuum ; but it seemed...balance was suspended in empty space only — the pith ball would remain motionless, wherever the hot body were applied to it. I continued exhausting.... | |
| Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - 1880 - 382 Seiten
...the inertia of the straw beam and the pith ball ; that there would still be some traces of a movement at a still nearer approach to a vacuum ; but it seemed evident that when the last trace of air was removed from the tube round the balance, and the balance suspended in empty space only, the pith... | |
| 1880 - 384 Seiten
...the inertia of the straw beam and the pith ball ; that there would still be some traces of a movement at a still nearer approach to a vacuum ; but it seemed evident that when the last trace of air was removed from the tube round the balance, and the balance suspended in empty space only, the pith... | |
| 1871 - 604 Seiten
...the straw beam and the pith balls. A more delicate instrument would doubtless show traces of movement at a still nearer approach to a vacuum; but it seemed...balance was suspended in empty space only — the pith ball would remain motionless, wherever the hot body were applied to it. " 34. I continued exhausting.... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1874 - 668 Seiten
...the straw beam and the pith balls. A more delicate instrument would doubtless show traces of movement at a still nearer approach to a vacuum ; but it seemed...discovered the law governing these phenomena; the pith ball rose steadily, and without that hesitation which had been observed at lower rarefactions.... | |
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