 | Physics - 1806 - 836 pages
...trees, which appeared to lead to important consequences. I have in my possession a piece of a fir tree from which a portion of bark, extending round its...gravity of the wood above the decorticated space being 0-5go, and of that below only 0'49t; and having steeped pieces of each,- which weighed a hundred grains,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Science - 1806 - 884 pages
...space is much descending sap, I ascertained the specific gravity of both "CDSCrkinds, taking a Vedge of each, as nearly of the same form as I could obtain, and I found (be difference greatly more than I had anticipated, (he specific gravity of the wood above the decorticated... | |
 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1807 - 528 pages
...preceding experiments worthy of communication, but that many of the conclusions I have drawn in my former memoirs appear, at first view, almost incompatible...as nearly of the same form as I could obtain, and I fount! the difference greatly more than 1 had anticipated, the specific gravity of the \v.ood above... | |
 | Thomas Andrew Knight - Horticulture - 1841 - 410 pages
...this portion of wood, one grew above, and the other below, the decorticated space. Conceiving that the wood above the decorticated space ought to be...gravity of the wood above the decorticated space being 0'590, and of that below only (H91 : and having steeped pieces of each, which weighed a hundred grains,... | |
 | Thomas Andrew Knight - 1841 - 406 pages
...other below, the decorticated space. Conceiving that the wood above the decorticated space ought to bo much heavier than that below it, owing to the stagnation...gravity of the wood above the decorticated space being 0-590, and of that below only 0-491 : and having steeped pieces of each, which weighed a hundred grains,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1808 - 1408 pages
...and Du Hamel have described. I should scarcely have thought an account of the preceding expen. meats worth sending to you, but that many of the conclusions...gravity of the wood above the decorticated space being 6,590, and of that below only 0,401 ; and having steeped pieces of each, which weighed 100 grains,... | |
 | Physics - 1807 - 486 pages
...trees, which appeared to lead to important consequences. I have in my possession a piece of a Sr tree from which a portion of bark, extending round its...gravity of the wood above the' decorticated space being 0.5 90, and of that below onlyO'491; • and having steeped pieces of each, which weighed a hundred... | |
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I have in my possession a piece of a fir-tree, from which a portion of bark, extending round its whole stem, had been taken off several years before the tree was felled ; and of this portion of wood one part grew above, and the other below the decorticated... 