 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1863 - 838 pages
...gas exhibits only a few grand and simple features. These again may all be dependent upon atomic and molecular mobility. Let us imagine one kind of substance...With the atom at rest the uniformity of matter would he perfect. But the atom possesses always more or less motion, due, it must be assumed, to a primordial... | |
 | 1865 - 388 pages
...solid. The gas exhibits only a few grand and simple features. These, again, may also be dependent upon atomic or molecular mobility. Let us imagine one kind...in size and weight. We shall have one substance and one common atom. With the atom at rest, the uniformity of matter would be perfect ; but the atom always... | |
 | 1865 - 372 pages
...gas exhibits only a few grand and simple features. These again may all be dependent upon atomic and molecular mobility. Let us imagine one kind of substance...atoms, uniform in size and weight. We shall have one eubstauce and a common atom. With the atom at rest the uniformity of matter would be perfect. But the... | |
 | 1866 - 368 pages
...solid. The gas exhibits only a few grand and simple features. These, again, may also be dependent upon atomic or molecular mobility. Let us imagine one kind...matter; and, further, that matter is divisible into ultimito aty.as, uniform in size an 1 weight. We shall have one substance and one conr.non atom. With... | |
 | 1866 - 374 pages
...solid. The gas exhibits only a few grand and simple features. Those, again, may also be depandent upon atomic or molecular mobility. Let us imagine one kind...matter: and, further, that matter is divisible into ultiinite а1хш, uniform in size an 1 weight. We shall have one substance and one common atom. With... | |
 | 1865 - 372 pages
...solid. The gas exhibits only a few grand and simple features. These, again, may also be dependent upon atomic or molecular mobility. Let us imagine one kind...that matter is divisible into ultimate atoms, uniform 112 in size and weight. We shall have one substance and one common atom. With the atom at rest, the... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1872 - 628 pages
...solid. The gas exhibits only a few grand and simple features. These again may all be dependent upon atomic or molecular mobility. Let us imagine one kind...ultimate atoms, uniform in size and weight. We shall then have one substance and a common atom. With the atom at rest the uniformity of matter would be... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1872 - 610 pages
...solid. The gas exhibits only a few grand and simple features. These again may all be dependent upon atomic or molecular mobility. Let us imagine one kind...ultimate atoms, uniform in size and weight. We shall then have one substance and a common atom. With the atom at rest the uniformity of matter would be... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1873 - 486 pages
...solid. The gas exhibits only a few grand and simple features. These again may all be dependent upon atomic or molecular mobility. Let us imagine one kind of substance only to exist—ponderable matter; and further, that matter is divisible into ultimate atoms, uniform in size... | |
 | 1899 - 448 pages
...features of the gas, may all be dependent upon atomic and molecular mobility. Let us imagine, he says, one kind of substance only to exist — ponderable...the atom at rest the uniformity of matter would be perfeâ. But the atom possesses always more or less motion, due, it must be assumed, to a primordial... | |
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In the condition of gas, matter is deprived of numerous and varying properties, with which it appears invested when in the form of a liquid or solid. The gas exhibits only a few grand and simple features. These again may all be dependent upon atomic or... 
