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Example sentences for "compressibility"

Lexicographically close words:
comprendre; comprends; compress; compressed; compresses; compressible; compressing; compression; compressions; compressive
  1. Evidence of compressibility of gases and incompressibility of liquids.

  2. Mention three illustrations of the compressibility and expansibility of air that you know from your own experience.

  3. This is a device which illustrates at the same time transmission of pressure by liquids, Archimedes' principle, and compressibility of gases.

  4. We cannot, therefore, get much satisfaction out of any calculations made upon the theory of the strength of materials; still, by them, we can make more plain the absurdity of any notion of the indefinite compressibility of matter.

  5. Intermediate conductors may have the quantity in them of ether corresponding to their conductivity; and the compressibility of water, or any liquid, may depend upon the quantity of the ether mixed with its ultimate atoms.

  6. The contraction which takes place in solution is, however, very small, a fact which depends on the small compressibility of solids and liquids, and on the insignificance of the compressing force acting in solution.

  7. Thus the increase of pv with the increase of pressure must be considered as the normal law of the compressibility of gases.

  8. The addition of various substances to water generally decreases both its compressibility and cohesion.

  9. The compressibility of solutions of common salt is less, according to Grassi, than that of water.

  10. The compressibility of other liquids increases with a rise of temperature, but for water it decreases up to 53° and then increases like other liquids.

  11. In the former case the compressibility is less than it should he according to Mariotte's law, in the latter case it is greater.

  12. Hydrogen presents such a positive compressibility at all pressures, for it presents positive discrepancies from Mariotte's law, according to Regnault, at all pressures above the atmospheric pressure.

  13. Compressibility of Labour and Intensification of Effort.

  14. Some limits are necessarily imposed upon this compressibility of working effort.

  15. Water, if it continued to decrease in volume according to the rate of compressibility deduced from experiment, would have its density doubled at the depth of ninety-three miles, and be as heavy as mercury at the depth of 362 miles.

  16. And this, says Michell, will seem less extraordinary, if we call to mind the extreme elasticity of the earth and the compressibility of even the most solid materials.

  17. The study of the compressibility of gases is an interesting one.

  18. The theory of the compressibility of gases may be stated as follows: Let us assume that the temperature of the air is 70 degrees Fahrenheit, and we have a receiver which holds two cubic feet of this air.

  19. The coefficient of compressibility ranges from 0.

  20. As the interior portions of our globe are totally unknown, and the compressibility of water is well established, it is just as sane to consider water the most abundant element of nature, as solid land.

  21. Besides, there are indications of a gradual increase of density downwards, such as would arise from the compressibility of the layers.

  22. We may think that researches of this kind will only be successful if attention is concentrated, not only on the phenomena of compressibility and dilatation, but also on the calorimetric properties of bodies.

  23. Others, again, such as the study of the compressibility of water, have a special interest, on account of the peculiar properties of this substance.

  24. Again, let us take an example from Physics--Boyle's law of the compressibility of gases.


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