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III. IN these other diagrams, however (Figs. 13 to 28), we have certain portions of the curves taken to represent real capillary surfaces shown in section. In Fig. 13 a solid sphere is shown in four different positions in contact with a mercury surface; and again, in Fig. 14 we have a section of the form assumed by mercury resting in a circular V-groove. Figs. 15 to 28 show water-surfaces under different conditions as to capillarity; the scale of the drawings for each set of figures is shown by a line the length of which represents one centimetre; the dotted horizontal lines indicate the positions of the free water-level. The drawings are sufficiently explicit to require no further reference here save the remark that water is represented by the lighter shading, and solid by the darker.
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THOMSON, W. Capillary Attraction 2 . Nature 34, 366–369 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034366a0
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