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...justified as follows by Sir JJ Thomson in Electricity and Matter, p. 93 : — " Let us then take as nur primordial system an electrical doublet, with a negative...spread is very much larger than the volume of the coqniscle. The lines of force will therefore be very much more condensed near the corpuscle than at...

...This assumption was justified as follows by Sir JJ Thomson in Electricity and Matter, p. 93 :— " Let us then take as our primordial system an electrical...corpuscle at one end and an equal positive charge ai. the other, the two ends being connected by lines of electric force which we suppose to have a material...

...corpuscle is associated with an equal charge of positive electricity. Then the primordial system would be an electrical doublet, with a negative corpuscle at...ends being connected by lines of electric force which are supposed to have a material existence. The positive electricity is supposed to be spread over a...

..."Let us then take as our primordial system an electrical doublet, with a negative corpuscle (electron) at one end and an equal positive charge at the other,...being connected by lines of electric force which we supposed to have a material existence.'" We are told by science that the mass (quantity of matter)...

...51. * Ibid, p. 51. atoms of the body.'" In speaking of the constitution of the atoms, Thomson says : "Let us then take as our primordial system an electrical doublet, with a negative corpuscle (electron) at one end and an equal positive charge at the other, the two ends being connected by lines...