23. 〃 Equal Volumes of Different Things under the same
circumstances, have Different Weights: the Density
of Different Bodies is Different 32
24. 〃 The Meaning of Heavy and Light—Specific Gravity 33
25. 〃 Things of greater Specific Gravity than Water sink in
Water; Things of less Specific Gravity float 34
26. 〃 A Body which Floats in Water always occupies as much
Space beneath the level of the Surface of the Water
as is equal to the Volume of Water which weighs as
much as that Body; in other words, it displaces its
own Weight of Water 36
27. 〃 Water Presses in all Directions 37
28. 〃 The Transference of Motion by Moving Water: the
Momentum of Moving Water 40
29. 〃 The Energy of Moving Water 43
30. 〃 The Properties of Water are Constant 47
31. 〃 Increase of Heat at first causes Water to Increase in
Volume 48
32. 〃 Increase of Heat at length causes Water to become
Steam 50
33. 〃 The taking away of Heat from Steam causes the Steam to
change into Hot Water 51
34. 〃 When Water is changed into Steam, its Volume becomes
about 1,700 times greater than it was at first 51
35. 〃 Gases or Elastic Fluids. Air 52
36. 〃 Steam is an Elastic Fluid or Gas 54
37. 〃 Gases and Vapours 55
38. 〃 The Evaporation of Water at ordinary Temperatures 56
39. 〃 When Hot Water is cooled, it Contracts to begin with,
but after a time Expands 57
40. 〃 Water cooled still further becomes the transparent
brittle solid Ice 58
41. 〃 Ice has less Specific Gravity than the Water from
which it was formed 59
42. 〃 Hoar Frost is the Gaseous Water which exists in the
Atmosphere, condensed and converted into Ice
Crystals 60
43. 〃 When Ice is warmed it begins to change back into Water
as soon as the Temperature reaches 32° 61
44. 〃 Ice the solid, Water the liquid, and Steam the gas,
are three states of one natural object; the
Condition of each State being a certain Amount of
Heat 62
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