...water, then dividing its weight in the air by tlie loss of weight sustained in the liquid. This loss is the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the body. The quotient is the number sought. Nicholson's areometer serves to find these two weights with...

...an equal volume of water: that is, if a mineral weighs 120 grains out of water, but 90 on immersion, it has lost 30 grains, which is the weight of a volume...instance 4 times as much as the water; for 4x30 grains, (weight of water,) equals 120 grains, which is the weight of the mineral. The rule for the process...

...equal volume of water : that is, if a mineral weighs 120 grains out of water, but 90 on immersion, it has lost 30 grains, which is the weight of a volume...instance 4 times as much as the -water ; for 4x30 grains, (weight of water,) equals 120 grains, which is the weight of the mineral. The rule for the process...

...the body of necessity displaces its own bulk— Hence, the weight lost, or supported by the water, is the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the body immersed. Whatever be the density of the substance, it will bo buoyed up to this amount; in the...

...the body of necessity displaces its own bulk— Hence, the weight lost, or supported by the water, is the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the body immersed. Whatever be the density of the substance, it will be buoyed up to this amount; in the...

...the body of necessity displaces its own bulk— Hence, the weight lost, or supported by the water, is the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the body immersed. Whatever be the density of the substance it will be buoyed up to this amount ; in the...

...weight 01 an equal volume of water : that is, if a mineral weighs 120 grains out of water, but 90 011 emersion, it has lost 30 grains, which is the weight...The mineral, consequently, weighs in this instance è times as much as the water ; for 4x30 grains equals 120 grains, which is the weight of the mineral....

...volume of water: that is, if a mineral weighs 120 grains out of water, but 90 on emersion, it has 1st 30 grains, which is the weight of a volume of water equal to 4at of the mineral. The mineral, consequently, weighs in this '-'ance 4- times as much as the water;...

...the water. In this state, the weight of the areometer, added to the weights in the cup, represents the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the pan of the apparatus immersed, according to the first condition of the equilibrium of floating bodies...

...the loss of weight in water is w— w l9 and this is equal to the upward pressure of the water, or to the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the solid. Hence w absolute weight w— •w l loss oí weight The absolute weight as well as the loss...