To form some conception of the degree of coarse-grainedness indicated by this conclusion, imagine a rain drop, or a globe of glass as large as a pea, to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each constituent molecule being magnified in the same proportion.... Nature - Page 165edited by - 1872Full view - About this book
| 1870 - 106 pages
...structure of a raindrop or a globe of glass, as big as a pea, magnified up to the size of the earth, would be coarser grained than a heap of small shot, but probably less coarse than a heap of cricket-balls. On the subject of gold-toning, Mr. Webster, FCS, writes thus : — "... | |
| Henry Lonsdale - 1867 - 338 pages
...contiguous molecules is less than the hundred-millionth, and greater than the two thousand-millionth of a centimetre. To form some conception of the degree...shot, but probably less coarse grained than a heap of cricket-balls. " Beyond this point of extreme tenuity, where matter first exhibits that property which... | |
| 1871 - 372 pages
...two-thousand-millionth of a centimetre. Or, to form a conception of this coarse-grainedness, imagine a raindrop, or globe of glass as large as a pea, to be magnified...shot, but probably less coarse grained than a heap of cricket-balls. There is, however, another class of physical considerations which render the existence... | |
| 1871 - 398 pages
...two-thousand-millionth of a centimetre. Or, to form a conception of this coarse-grainedness, imagine a raindrop, or globe of glass as large as a pea, to be magnified...shot, but probably less coarse grained than a heap of cricket-balls. There is, however, another class of physical considerations which render the existence... | |
| 1871 - 372 pages
...two-thousand-millionth of a centimetre. Or, to form a conception of this coarse-grainedness, imagine a raindrop, or globe of glass as large as a pea, to be magnified...shot, but probably less coarse grained than a heap of cricket-balls. There is, however, another class of physical considerations which render the existence... | |
| 1871 - 816 pages
...indicated by this conclusion, imagine a rain-drop, or a globe of glass ns large as a pea, to be-magnificd up to the size of the earth, each constituent molecule...shot, but probably less coarse grained than a heap of oricket-balls." In his opening address before Section В of the British association, in September,... | |
| 1871 - 668 pages
...glass as large as a pea, to be magnifiée up to the size of the earth, each constituent mole ciüe being magnified in the same proportion, the. magnified...structure would be coarser grained than a heap of email shot, but probably less coarse grained than a heap of cricket-balls. There is, however, another... | |
| 1871 - 822 pages
...glass ;large as a pen, to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each constituent molecule bcin;; magnified in the same proportion. The magnified structure would be coarser grained tlisn a heap of small shot, but probably less eoar-.' grained than a heap of cricket-balls." In his... | |
| 1872 - 396 pages
...glass as large as a pea, to be magnified to the size of the earth, each constituent molecule to be magnified in the same proportion. The magnified structure...coarser grained than a heap of small shot, but probably coarser grained than a heap of cricket balls." For me to take issue with such eminently high authority,... | |
| Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1873 - 444 pages
...glass to be magnified up to the size of the earth, when, if each constituent molecule were enlarged in the same proportion, the magnified structure would...shot, but probably less coarse grained than a heap of cricket-balls.* 5. Elements and Compounds.— In subjecting all matter to his experiments, the chemist... | |
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