TABLE 147. 



CONTRACTION PRODUCED BY SOLUTION. 



TABLE 148. 



CONTRACTION DUE TO DILUTION OF A SOLUTION.! 



The first column gives the name of the salt dissolved, the second the amount of the salt required to produce saturation 

 and the third the contraction produced by mixing with an equal volume of water. 



SMITHSONIAN TABLES. 



* Authority not given. 



t R. Broom, " Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin." vol. 13, p. 172. 



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