The instrument affords a ready method of transferring liquids.
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.
In liquids sound waves are longitudinal as they are in air.
The system of multiples was for liquids --
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.