A Manual of Chemical Analysis: Qualitative and Quantitative, for the Use of Students, Part 1

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Reeve, 1864 - Analytical chemistry - 663 pages

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Page 225 - ... that a body plunged in a fluid loses as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of an equal volume of the fluid.
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