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4. On a New Diffusiometer and other Apparatus for Liquid Diffusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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Supposing a tall glass tube open at both ends be cemented into a reservoir packed full of common salt, and the tube then carefully filled up with water, and the whole apparatus immersed overhead in a jar of water, in a few days or weeks (depending upon the length of the tube) particles of salt will arrive at the top of the tube and diffuse into the water atmosphere

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Proceedings 1886-87
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1888

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* The difference between the heights was reduced to 6 millimetres instead of 31. See also confirmatory experiments detailed in Table IV., added September 1887.Google Scholar

See Table IV. for details.