...&c. See Jameson's Mineralogy, vol. i p. 28. 2d edit. weighing 3 oz. loses 1 by immersion in water, the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the immersed mineral is 1 oz. In saying then, that the sp. gr. of gold is 19, &c. I mean, that it is 19...

...water, then dividing its weight in the air by the 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 facility...

...upper cup, in order to sink the instrument down to the mark; then //(the weight lost by immersion) is the weight of a' volume of water equal to that of the solid. Consequently *— p expresses the specific 8ATCHARUM. the name of a genus of plants of the natural...

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

...the weight of a volume of oil of turpentine equal to that of the guano. Now, 874 : 51.3: : 1000:58.7, the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the guano. Then 58.7 : 1 : : 100 : 1.7, the specific gravity of the guano. In the foregoing processes,...

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

...upper cup, in order to sink the instrument down to the mark; then ;/ (the weight lost by immersion) is the weight of a' volume of water equal to that of the solid. Consequently w'—p expresses the specific gravity of the solid, that of water being unity....

...when the solid is inserted, and the remaining space filled with liquid ; then w + ww — w, equals the weight of a volume of water equal to that of the w solid, and the specific gravity — — , . This method is 1 * W + TOW W, applicable to solids heavier...

...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 part of the apparatus immersed, according to the first condition of the equilibrium of floating bodies...

...the loss of weight in water is w— wl, 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 C7— - — — - - - . i .. w— •wl loss of weight The absolute...