The instrument affords a ready method of transferring liquids.
In liquids sound waves are longitudinal as they are in air.
Pasteur first formulated the idea that bacteria are responsible for the diseases of fermented liquids; the corollary of this was a demand for pure yeast.
The glycols are somewhat thick liquids, of high boiling point, the pinacones only being crystalline solids; they are readily soluble in water and alcohol, but are insoluble in ether.
The system of multiples was for liquids --