| David Thomas Ansted - 1865 - 318 Seiten
...cubic yard, or two tons weight of granite, contains, in its ordinary state, something more than 3^ gallons of water, and some specimens can absorb nearly...in pure water for a short period. It is important to notice this fact, as the influence of frost on a stone is in proportion to the water it takes up,... | |
| 1865 - 794 Seiten
...Expressec in another way, a cubic yard of granite contains something more than 3J gallons of water, and can absorb nearly a gallon more on being placed in pure water for a short period. To a small extent granite is soluble in pure water and hydro-chloric ncid. The solubility of granitt... | |
| Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club - 1890 - 500 Seiten
...cent. So that a cubic yard of granite of two tons in weight contains in its ordinary state about 3-5 gallons of water, and some specimens can absorb nearly...on being placed in pure water for a short period. An accurate and painstaking worker, M. Daubree, member of 1' Academic des Sciences, Paris, relates... | |
| 1907 - 1026 Seiten
...cubic yard of granite weighing 2 tons contains in its ordinary state about 3-i gallons of water and can absorb nearly a gallon more on being placed in pure water for a short period. Buckley e found that the pore space or porosity in fourteen AVisconsin granites ranges from 0.17 to... | |
| Benjamin Kendall Emerson, Joseph Hartshorn Perry - 1907 - 700 Seiten
...cubic yard of granite weighing 2 tons contains in its ordinary state about 3£ gallons of water and can absorb nearly a gallon more on being placed in pure water for a short period. Buckley* found that the pore space or porosity in fourteen Wisconsin granites ranges from 0.17 to 0.392... | |
| Geological Survey (U.S.) - 1907 - 244 Seiten
...cubic yard of granite weighing 2 tons contains in its ordinary state about 3| gallons of water and can absorb nearly a gallon more on being placed in pure water for a short period. Buckley e found that the pore space or porosity in fourteen Wisconsin granites ranges from 0.17 to... | |
| Thomas Nelson Dale - 1908 - 458 Seiten
...cubic yard of granite weighing 2 tons contains in its ordinary state about 3J gallons of water and can absorb nearly a gallon more on being placed in pure water for a short period. Buckley* found that the pore space or porosity in fourteen Wisconsin granites a Report of the tests... | |
| Thomas Nelson Dale - 1908 - 250 Seiten
...cubic yard of granite weighing 2 tons contains in its ordinary state about 3t gallons of water and can absorb nearly a gallon more on being placed in pure water for a short period. Buckley' found that the pore space or porosity in fourteen Wisconsin granites o Report of the tests... | |
| 1907 - 1200 Seiten
...cubic yard of granite weighing 2 tons contains in its ordinary state about 3£ gallons of water and can absorb nearly a gallon more on being placed in pure water for a short period. Buckley ' found that the pore space or porosity in fourteen Wisconsin granites ranges from 0.17 to... | |
| 1865 - 564 Seiten
...another way, a cubic yard of granite contains some thing more than .'U gallons of water, and can absorl nearly a gallon more on being placed in pure water for a short period. To a small extent granite is soluble in pure water and hydro-chloric ncid. The solubility of granite... | |
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