Cyclopadic Science SimplifiedF. Warne and Company, 1869 - 685 pages |
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... bodies , and is by its elastic fcrce expanded through the heavens . Its density is greater in free and open space than in compact bodies , and increases as it recedes from them . This medium , growing denses and denser perpetually as it ...
... bodies , and is by its elastic fcrce expanded through the heavens . Its density is greater in free and open space than in compact bodies , and increases as it recedes from them . This medium , growing denses and denser perpetually as it ...
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... bodies , and when this inequality is very great . " These numerous exceptions to Coulomb's laws are in a great part due to there occurring to electrised bodies , when in presence of each other , impor- tant modifications in their ...
... bodies , and when this inequality is very great . " These numerous exceptions to Coulomb's laws are in a great part due to there occurring to electrised bodies , when in presence of each other , impor- tant modifications in their ...
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... bodies are decomposed directly by the electric current , their elements being set free ; these I propose to call electrolytes . Water , therefore , is an electrolyte . The bodies which , like nitric or sulphuric acids , are decomposed ...
... bodies are decomposed directly by the electric current , their elements being set free ; these I propose to call electrolytes . Water , therefore , is an electrolyte . The bodies which , like nitric or sulphuric acids , are decomposed ...
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