 | Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - 1809 - 408 páginas
...for instance distilled water at the temperature of melting ice, the density of another body, will be the ratio of its weight to that of an equal volume of water ; and this is called its specific gravity. \> hat we have said, seems to suppose that matter... | |
 | James Renwick - 1832 - 560 páginas
...is the depth of its centre of gravity beneath the surface. CHAPTER IV. OF SPECIFIC GRAVITIES. 337. The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body. In this general sense, it is equivalent to density,... | |
 | W. M. Buchanan - 1846 - 768 páginas
...inversely as the square of the distance. Weight is the measure of gravity. Specific gravity of a body ia the ratio of its weight to that of an equal volume of water assumed as a standard. GRAZIOSO (It), in music, signifies elegantly and gracefully. GREASE. In... | |
 | D. M. Knapen - 1849 - 300 páginas
...will weigh any number of pounds from 1 to the sum of the weights. 1 68. SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF BODIES. The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of the same volume of some other body assumed as a standard. Pure water being the standard... | |
 | William Phillips - 1852 - 732 páginas
...mineral should be reduced to fragments, or coarse powder. The specific gravity of a body, in mineralogy, is the ratio of its weight to that of an equal volume of water at a given temperature (usually 60° F., or 1o°-55 C.). SPECIFIC GRAVITY. 260. Let a fragment... | |
 | Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase - 1857 - 388 páginas
...the depth being 4 times the breadth? Ans. Depth, 17.7812in. ; Breadth, 4.4453in. X. SPECIFIC GRAVITY. THE Specific Gravity of a body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a standard. The standard usually adopted... | |
 | Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase - 1857 - 398 páginas
...depth being 4 times the breadth ? Ans. Depth, 17.7812in. ; Breadth, 4.4453in. X. SPECIFIC GRAVITY. THE Specific Gravity of a body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a standard. Tho standard usually adopted... | |
 | Josiah P. Cooke, Jr. - 1860 - 754 páginas
...Methods of determining' Specific Gravity. (144.) The specific gravity of a substance has been defined as the ratio of its weight to that of an equal volume of pure water at 4° C., — -the temperature at which the volume of the solid is measured being 0° 0.... | |
 | David Page - 1865 - 520 páginas
...figure, by ascertaining the intensity of gravitation at different latitudes. Gravity, Specific. — The Specific Gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a conventional standard. In Britain, the... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1866 - 972 páginas
...nature of the substances on which it acts. Gravity, Centre of. [CENTBE OF ÜBAVITY.] t ravlty, Specific. The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of its weight to tho weight of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a conventional standard. Tho standard usually... | |
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Gravity of a substance is the ratio of its weight to that of an equal volume of water. 
