THE point raised by Mr. Cumming in last week's NATURE (vol. xxxvii. p. 584), as to the use of the words density and specific gravity is, it seems to me, of some importance. For many years past I have, ...
UNDER this title I have communicated to the Chemical Society the results of a prolonged investigation on the connection existing between the weights of unit volumes of liquid substances and their ...
The purpose of this paper is to determine the extent to which the physical and mechanical properties of dry and green wood samples are correlated. Samples of green (fresh) sap- and heartwood differing ...