Liquid Drops and Globules, Their Formation and Movements: Three lectures delivered to popular audiences — John Shaqi
Liquid Drops and Globules, Their Formation and Movements: Three lectures delivered to popular audiencesDarling, Charles R. (Charles Robert)
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Liquid Drops and Globules, Their Formation and Movements: Three lectures delivered to popular audiences
Darling, Charles R. (Charles Robert)
Drops; Liquids; Surface tension
Accessories such as glass rods, plates, tubing of various diameters,
thin copper wire, and an aluminium plate for the spheroidal state, can
be obtained from any dealer in apparatus; and the same applies to
clamp-stands for holding funnels, etc.
*Water.*—Ordinary tap-water suffices for all the experiments described,
and for work with films and globules is superior to distilled water,
which often possesses a surface so greasy as to retard or even entirely
prevent the desired result. All experiments conducted on the surface of
water should be performed in a clean vessel which has been rinsed out
several times with tap-water before filling.
*Lantern Projection.*—In demonstrating the phenomena to an audience, a
lantern may be used to advantage. It should be of the type now
procurable, which is arranged for the projection of experiments
conducted either in a horizontal or vertical position, by the use of the
electric arc or other suitable source of light. Flat-sided vessels are
essential for the successful projection of views of objects in a
vertical position; and for showing globules, etc., on the surface of
water, better definition is secured if cells with plate-glass bottoms
are used instead of vessels made of a single piece of glass. The author
has generally used a “Kershaw” lantern for lecture purposes, with quite
satisfactory results. This lantern may also be adapted for projecting
solid objects by reflected light—as, for example, a hot plate on which a
spheroid of water is floating (Fig. 34). The contrivance known as the
“Mirrorscope” may also be used, with slight modification, for producing
a magnified image of solid objects on the screen.
INDEX
A PAGE
Aceto-acetic ether, automatic drops of, . . . 37
” columns of, . . . . . . 44
Aniline, automatic drops of, . . . . 33
” equi-density temperature of, . . . 17
” films or skins, . . . . . 19
” globules, movements of, . . . 63
Anisol, . . . . . . . . 19
Area of stretched surfaces, . . . . . 7
B
Boundary surface of two liquids, . . . . 6
Butyl benzoate, . . . . . . . 19
C
Camphor, movements of on the surface of water, . 63
Centrifugoscope, . . . . . . 14
Chloroform, composite drops of, . . . . 48
D
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