gravities's Usage Examples:

When loaded with either of the lightest two weights the instrument is specifically lighter than Sikes's hydrometer when unloaded, and it may thus be used for specific gravities as low as that of absolute alcohol.

329) the author refers to a glass instrument exhibited by himself many years before, and "consisting of a bubble furnished with a long and slender stem, which was to be put into several liquors, to compare and estimate their specific gravities.

represents "a small glass instrument for estimating the specific gravities of liquors," an account of which was promised by Boyle in the following number of the Phil.

With all the important work he accomplished in physics - the enunciation of Boyle's law, the discovery of the part taken by air in the propagation of sound, and investigations on the expansive force of freezing water, on specific gravities and refractive powers, on crystals, on electricity, on colour, on hydrostatics, 'c.

, the figures indicating specific gravities being quotients obtained by dividing in each instance the weight of the solid or liquid by the weight of an equal bulk of water, both taken at 60 F.

The marine hydrometers, as supplied by the British government to the royal navy and the merchant marine, are glass instruments with slender stems, and generally serve to indicate specific gravities from 1.

The following table gives the specific gravities corresponding to the principal graduations on Sikes's hydrometer at 60° F.

The following table gives the specific gravities of many metals.

Buchanan on the " Challenger " it has been usual for British investigators to calculate specific gravities for sea-water at 60° F.

Synonyms:

gravitational force, attraction, gravitation, gravitational attraction, solar gravity, attractive force,

Antonyms:

concern, humility, levitation, intemperance, repulsion,