The pump was an ordinary compressor of two cylinders, each cylinder having a capacity of 1,000 cubic inches.
In volume it is about 26 or 27 cubic inches; or about half the minimum size of a normal human brain.
In my own case, for instance, the spirometer should register, according to the table of comparative height and breathing power compiled by John Hutchinson, 230 cubic inches.
The other tube in the flask is connected with an air-pump of 10 cubic inches capacity.
After one stroke of the air-pump, this mixed air is made to occupy an additional space of 10 cubic inches; and this rarefying of the air so chills it that condensation of the water-vapour takes place on the dust-particles.
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.
As simple examples: How many board feet in a piece of lumber containing 2,880 cubic inches?
On the inside are three boxes or drawers, which will hold about one thousand cubic inches each, and when filled with honey, usually weigh about thirty-five pounds, which is a sufficient amount of honey to winter a large swarm.
The Auphauk (not named in the Bible) was the smallest, containing 6 cubic inches, or 675 thousandths of a gill.
On a general average, they may be said to contain about 280 cubic inches, or nearly five quarts of air.
Each gallon contains 231 cubic inches of distilled water.
Table, showing the Size of the Brain in Cubic Inches, as obtained by the Measurement of 623 Crania of various Races and Families of Man.
The figures represent the internal capacity of the skull in cubic inches, and were obtained by filling the cavity with shot and afterwards pouring them into an accurately graduated measure.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cubic inches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
