Britainâs response was swift. The following spring, Parliament passed four acts known collectively, by the British, as the âCoercive Acts.â Colonists, however, referred to them as the âIntolerable Acts.â First, the Boston Port Act shut down the harbor and cut off all trade to and from the city.
The bulk density often is the bulk density of the powder âas pouredâ or as passively filled into a measuring vessel. The tapped density is a limiting density attained after âtapping down,â usually in a device that lifts and drops a volumetric measuring cylinder containing the powder a fixed distance.
Percussion: Tapping on the chest wall over healthy lung results in a hollow resonant sound. The hollow character of the resonance sometimes is exaggerated in emphysematous lungs or in pneumothorax, and muffled by pleural effusions or pulmonary consolidation.