Excerpt from New Method for Determining Compressibility IT has been suggested recently that since the volume of a solid or liquid must be determined in part by the internal pressures to which it is subjected by chemical affinity and cohesion, the compressibilities of substances are probably data of important chemical significance.' In attempting to interpret this significance, the enquirer at once faces the fact that few pertinent compressibilities are accurately known. Only complex organic compounds have been much studied, and their behavior under pressure is affected by too many variables to be easily interpreted. No more than four elements have been studied at all, and none except mercury and copper have been investigated by more than a single investigator. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.