A cubic inch of water makes about a cubic foot of steam of the atmospheric pressure.
A cubic inch of water therefore raised into steam will require 22.
A cubic inch of brandy has been found by many experiments to weigh ten grains more in winter than in summer, the difference being between four drams thirty-two grains and four drams forty-two grains.
A cubic inch of water, during its conversion into steam, under the ordinary pressure of the atmosphere, expands into 1696 cubic inches, or nearly a cubic foot.
Now suppose that a cubic inchof gold, weighed 19 ounces out of water, and lost one ounce of its weight by being weighed in water, what would be its specific gravity?
To give you an idea of the extreme porosity of bodies, sir Isaac Newton conjectured that if the earth were so compressed as to be absolutely without pores, its dimensions might possibly not be more than a cubic inch.
It appears, therefore, that, by the evaporation of a cubic inch of water under a pressure equal to fifteen pounds per square inch, a mechanical force of this amount is developed.
This being within about 110 pounds of a ton, it may be stated, in round numbers, that, by the evaporation of a cubic inch of water under these circumstances, a force is obtained equal to that which would raise a ton weight a foot high.
Thus a cubic inchof liquid [Pg030] water would form about seventeen hundred cubic inches of common steam.
It is asserted that millions of cubic miles of some comets tails would not make a cubic inch of matter solid as iron.
Put a ton weight on a cubic inch of water; it does not flinch nor perceptibly shrink, yet the atoms of water do not fill the space they occupy.
A cubic inchof water will make a cubic foot--one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight times as much--of steam under the pressure of one atmosphere.
Pure magnesian limestone yields very nearly a cubic inch of the gas for every grain in weight.
The shut end A and the open end B are both graduated to one scale; for example, to hundredths of a cubic inch, or to grain or 10 grain measures.
For example, if a cubic inch of water be evaporated into steam at a pressure of 14.
For example, the quantity of gas that, if confined in a cubic inch of space, would give a pressure of 80 lbs.
A cubic inch of water, when evaporated into steam at a pressure of 14.
Why is not a cubic inch of vapor warmer than a cubic inch of water?
Hence, a cubic inch of vapor, into which we place the bulb of a thermometer, contains no more heat than a cubic inch of water.
One-tenth of a cubic inch of the air to be examined is then introduced into the flask, and mixed with the 30 cubic inches of dustless air.
A little water having been inserted, the flask is inverted, and the table is placed exactly 1 inch from the inverted bottom, so that the contents of air right above the table are 1 cubic inch.
How many molecules there are in a cubic inch of air under ordinary pressure has been determined, and is represented approximately by a huge number, something like a thousand million million millions.
In this sense, then, density means the number of molecules in a unit of space, a cubic inch or cubic centimeter.
If a bullet or a piece of iron be hammered, the molecules are compacted closer together, and a greater number can be got into a cubic inch when so condensed.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cubic inch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
