Now the most startling result of Faraday's law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that eleetricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite... Makers of Science: Electricity & Magnetism - Page 160by Dorothy Mabel Turner - 1927 - 184 pagesFull view - About this book
| Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1908 - 1366 pages
...the electric charge of the ion." It is what Dr. Stoney has named an "electron." Helmholtz proceeds: " Now the most startling result of Faraday's law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive... | |
| Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1922 - 1468 pages
...fundamental electrical magnitude, the charge of the electron. In his Faraday Lecture, Helmholtz said : " If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid the conclusion that electricity, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1906 - 602 pages
...In his Faraday lecture, delivered in 1 88 1, which marks an epoch in the ion theory, Helmholtz says: "If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we can not avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1890 - 634 pages
...through Gases. (Preliminary Communication.)" By ARTHUR SCHUSTER, FRS Received and Read March 20, 1890. " If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid eoncluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary... | |
| 1881 - 904 pages
...call the electric charge of the atom. Now, the most startling result, perhaps, of Faraday's law is this : If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we can not avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1882 - 484 pages
...a view which, so far as I know, is novel, and certainly is what he calls it, "startling." He says, "If we accept the hypothesis, that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot help concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1882 - 480 pages
...a view which, so far as I know, is novel, and certainly is what he calls it, "startling." He says, "If we accept the hypothesis, that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot help concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary... | |
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1895 - 310 pages
...theoretical deductions, and which will probably receive increased attention in the immediate future : — "If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding1 that electricity, also positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary... | |
| Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1888 - 732 pages
...President (at Birmingham, 1886). This is what Helmholtz says (in his Faraday Lectures, 1881) : — " If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we ca.inot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1889 - 692 pages
...distribution and the association of the rare earths, evidence which seems to be converging to the • "If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances...concluding that electricity also, positive as well aa negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity."—... | |
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