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" A live fish about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it; a shock passed,... "
Familiar Illustrations of Natural Philosophy: Selected Principally from ... - Page 303
by James Renwick - 1840 - 403 pages
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 129

Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1839 - 504 pages
...A live fish about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it; a shock passed, and there in an instant...
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An Introduction to the Study of Chemical Philosophy: Being a Preparatory ...

John Frederic Daniell - 1843 - 810 pages
...as they were more or less favourably situated with regard to the direction of the current. ยง 889. The gymnotus can stun and kill fish which are in various...instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it. A shock passed, and in an instant,...
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What is a Voltaic Battery?.

Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1843 - 140 pages
...live fish, about five inches in length, was dropped into the tub containing the gymnotus. The latter instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil, inclosing the fish ; a shock passed, and there, in an instant, was the fish struck motionless, as if...
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Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 2

Michael Faraday - 1844 - 334 pages
...A live fish about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it; a shock passed, and there in an instant...
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The Poetry of Science: Or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature

Robert Hunt - 1849 - 538 pages
...live fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil, inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it ; a shock passed, and there, in an...
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Lectures on Electricity: Comprising Galvanism, Magnetism, Electro-magnetism ...

Henry M. Noad - 1849 - 534 pages
...live fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it : a shock passed, and there in an...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 20

1850 - 604 pages
...live fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into tha tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it ; a shock passed, and there in an...
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The North British Review, Volume 13

1850 - 662 pages
...live fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it ; a shock passed, and there in an...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 20

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...Alive fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. 'U U inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it; a shock passed, and there in an instant...
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The Poetry of Science: Or Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature

Robert Hunt - 1850 - 408 pages
...about live inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnolus instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil, inclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it ; a shock passed, and there, in an...
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