Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1889 — Compressibility of Water. [ARTICLE]

Compressibility of Water.

At a recent meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Prof. Tait showed tleoreticallv that water could be eompiessed to about three-fourths of its original bulk. The compressibility of sea-water is .92 of that of fresh water. II the water of the ocean were to suddenly become incompressible, four per cent of the habitable land of the globe would be submerged, because the mean depth of w r ater would be increased 116 feet.