ponderability
- a word derived from ponderable.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Exposed to heat, however, physical substance loses this feature to the extent that at the border of its ponderability all matter becomes pervious to light.
From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst
The supreme technical qualities in Cézanne are volume, ponderability, and an entrancing colour scheme.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
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
