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The Determination of Surface-Tension by the Measurement of Ripples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

C. Michie Smith
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Extract

Professor Tait has shown that accurate determinations of surface-tensions would be obtained if we could measure the rate of propagation of ripples set up by the vibration of a tuning-fork of known pitch.

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Proceedings 1889-90
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 17 , 1891 , pp. 115 - 121
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1891

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note * page 119 Pogg. Annal., cv. p. 1.