 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1865 - 518 pages
...the external air, is seen falling through the leather in small drops like rain. Gold was shown to be porous by some Florentine philosophers in the following...surface like dew. The experiment has since been repeated wit.'i other metals, and with like results. Gases are shown to be porous by their enormous reduction... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Physics - 1869 - 350 pages
...then of gravel, then of fine sand, and lastly some water. 2. At Florence, Italy, in the 17th century, a hollow sphere of gold was filled with water and tightly closed. Pressure was then applied to the outside, and the ball partly flattened. This change of form diminished... | |
 | Henry Martyn Hart - Chemistry - 1870 - 324 pages
...question was raised concerning the compressibility of water, and it was determined to try the experiment in the following manner : — A hollow sphere of gold was filled with that liquid ; and seeing that a sphere is that solid which possesses the maximum capacity, any alteration... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - 1871 - 348 pages
...then of gravel, then of fine sand, and lastly some water. 2. At Florence, Italy, in the 17th century, a hollow sphere of gold was filled with water and tightly closed. Pressure was then applied to the outside, and the ball partly flattened. This change of form diminished... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Fred L. Fox Collection - 1871 - 350 pages
...then of gravel, then of fine sand, and lastly some water. 2. At Florence, Italy, in the 17th century, a hollow sphere of gold was filled with water and tightly closed. Pressure was then applied to the outside, and the ball partly flattened. This change of form diminished... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1875 - 516 pages
...the external air, is seen falling through the leather in small drops like rain. Gold was shown to be porous by some Florentine philosophers in the following...in volume when compressed : if a gas be introduced inio a jar, it will spread by its expansive force and completely fill the vessel ; if a second gas... | |
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PHYSICS. poured into the upper cup, and the air exhausted from the tube, the mercury, being pressed down by the external air, is seen falling through the leather in small drops like rain. Gold was shown to be porous by some Florentine philosophers in... 