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For a long time, philosophers who rejected the idea that ponderability is a primary and essential quality of all bodies have sought to reduce their weight to pressures exercised in a very subtle fluid.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien

Substance, however, is to be widely distinguished from ponderability.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various

Altitude illustrates the ponderability of malaria by powerfully retarding its diffusion.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Fogs, smoke, dust, or floating particles presumably more buoyant than this poison may exert greater or less influence in overcoming the obstacle which ponderability attaches to malaria as an air-borne agent.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Why should matter be pronounced respectable in the inverse ratio of its density or ponderability?

From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John