XII. Determination of the surface-tension of water by the method of jet vibration

Abstract

It has been shown that one of the most important and difficult questions in regard to the determination of the surface-tension of water is to produce a sufficiently pure surface, and in later investigations great importance has therefore been attached to this point. In 1879 Lord Rayleigh, however, indicated a method which solves the above-mentioned difficulty in a far more perfect manner than any other method used hither to ; this method makes it possible to determine the surface-tension of an almost perfectly fresh and constantly newly formed surface.