8 
REPORT -184/. 
which gives the values of the specific gravity as follows:- 
lOOp. 
S. 
16-31 
1*14212 
0-00112 
1.5-49 
1*13407 
t 
107 
14-67 
1*12612 
152 
13-86 
1-11829 
— 
179 
13-05 
1*11056 
— 
156 
12-23 
1-10294 
— 
104 
11*4-2 
1-09542 
— 
12 
10-60 
1-08801 
70 
9-79 
1-08069 
+ 
22 
8-97 
1-07347 
+ 
83 
8-15 
1*06635 
+ 
185 
7-34 
1-05932 
+ 
208 
6-52 
1-05238 
+ 
102 
5-71 
1-04554 
4- 
116 
4-89 
1-03878 
+ 
172 
4-08 
1-08211 
+ 
149 
S-26 
1-02552 
+ 
128 
2-4-5 
1*01902 
+ 
158 
1-63 
1-01260 
+ 
140 
0-82 
1-00626 
+ 
114 
*® = 0-000035332, consequently 
the other twn^f^ ~ error is greater than for eitlier of 
if onlv thp t\ these same twenty observations; even 
formlda ^ considered, and 5 is calculated after tbe 
1 -h flip + bp^y 
in which the most probable values of the constants a and h are 
a = 0*8060-l-9, 
b = 0-298483, 
SdithfrtrthL‘th?coSLt^r^^^ experiments is only = 0*00085. In 
cannot express the observations. ^ ^ ^ 
vioitsly diluted hTemr so'^^rne'^n^ ^ !»’oved, that, tchen mlphutic md,p^ 
of the same temperature hath ^f^oater, is mixed with mere icdff 
of the mixlurefZCl u hli J^- if- other that the volume 
iss than tlm sum oftJ,e volumes temperature, becomes 
is concentrated sulphuric acid (SO, H,0) 
suffers a cotUrUoii, which Xhi « *>*« 
ture contains 78-29 parts of rnn/. n? wdicn 100 parts of the ma- 
one equivalent of clry^add fSO I acid and 26-71 parts of water, nr 
ever easy to show tlfat every mixt^,! ‘hree equivalents of iater. It is how- 
ever degree of dilution, must ^ ''’ater, of whal- 
further mixed with more water If i of contraction when 
'rater. If, for instance, the acid already coo- 
