Excerpt from Liquid Drops and Globules, Their Formation and Movements: Three Lectures Delivered to Popular Audiences General Properties of Liquids. - No scientific study can be pursued to advantage unless the under lying principles be understood and hence it will be necessary, in the begimiing, to refer to certain pro perties possessed by all liquids, whatever their origin. The most prominent characteristic of a liquid is mobility, or freedom of movement of its parts. It is owing to this property that a liquid, when placed ...
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Excerpt from Liquid Drops and Globules, Their Formation and Movements: Three Lectures Delivered to Popular Audiences General Properties of Liquids. - No scientific study can be pursued to advantage unless the under lying principles be understood and hence it will be necessary, in the begimiing, to refer to certain pro perties possessed by all liquids, whatever their origin. The most prominent characteristic of a liquid is mobility, or freedom of movement of its parts. It is owing to this property that a liquid, when placed in a vessel, flows in all directions until it reaches the sides; and it is this same freedom of movement which enables water, gathering on the hills, to flow under the pull of gravita tion into the lowlands, and finally to the sea. If we drop a small quantity of a strongly-coloured fluid such as ink - into a large volume of water, and stir the mixture for a short time, the colour is evenly dis tributed throughout the whole mass of water, because the freedom of movement of the particles enables the different portions to intermingle readily. This property of mobility distinguishes a liquid from a solid; for a solid maintains its own shape, and its separate parts cannot be made to mix freely. Mobility, however, is not possessed in equal degree by all liquids. Petrol, for example, flows more freely than water, which in turn is more mobile than glycerine or treacle. Some times a substance exhibits properties intermediate between those of a solid and a liquid, as, for instance, butter in hot weather. We shall not be concerned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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