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Excerpt from An Elementary Course of Natural and Experimental Philosophy: For the Use of High Schools and Academies, in Which the Principles of the Physical Sciences Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Numerous Experiments and Diagrams
In consequence of these properties, bodies differ very much in density. When bodies have the same size, or volume, their densities are measured by their weights. Thus a cubic foot of copper weighs nine times as much as a cubic foot of water; hence copper posem nine tunes the density, or specific gravity, of water.
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