 | 1774 - 628 pages
...due, it must be assumed, to a primordial impulse. This motion gives rise to volume. The more rapid the movement, the greater the space occupied by the atom, somewhat as the orb of a planet widens with the degree of projectile velocity. Matter is thus made to differ only in... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1899 - 648 pages
...due, it must be assumed, to a primordial impulse. This motion gives rise to volume. The more rapid the movement the greater the space occupied by the atom,...different density forms different substances — different inconvertible elements, as they have been considered. ' ' The hypothesis that the elements are built... | |
 | 1863 - 982 pages
...due, it must be assumed, to a primordial impulse. This motion gives rise to volume. The more rapid the movement the greater the space occupied by the atom,...different density forms different substances — different inconvertible elements as they have been considered. What has already been said is not meant to apply... | |
 | 1864 - 382 pages
...due, it must be assumed, to a primordial impulse. This motion gives rise to volume. The more rapid the movement, the greater the space occupied by the atom,...density forms different substances, — different inconvertible elements as they have been considered. What has already been said is not meant to apply... | |
 | 1865 - 372 pages
...due, it must be assumed, to a primordial impulse. This motion gives rise to volume. The more rapid the movement, the greater the space occupied by the atom,...density forms different substances, — different inconvertible elements as they have been considered. What has already been said is not meant to apply... | |
 | 1865 - 372 pages
...motion due, it must be assumed, to a primordial impulse. This motion gives rise to volume. The morí; rapid this movement, the greater the space occupied...widens with the degree of projectile velocity. Matter ia thus made to differ only in being lighter or denser matter. The specific motion of an atom being... | |
 | 1866 - 368 pages
...divisible into ultimito aty.as, uniform in size an 1 weight. We shall have one substance and one conr.non atom. With the atom at rest, the uniformity of matter...denser matter. The specific motion of an atom being inahenable, light matter is no longer convertible into heavy matter. In short, matter of different... | |
 | Joseph Bayma - 1866 - 300 pages
...due, it must be assumed, to a primordial impulse. This motion gives rise to volume. The more rapid the movement, the greater the space occupied by the atom,...matter is no longer convertible into heavy matter*," &c. I do not see, by what mechanical principles Mr Graham would be able to account for the motion of... | |
 | 1865 - 372 pages
...ponderable matter ; and, further, that matter is divisible into ultimate atoms, uniform 112 in size and weight. We shall have one substance and one common...differ only in being lighter or denser matter. The specilic motion of an atom being inalienable, light matter is no longer convertible into heavy matter.... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1872 - 610 pages
...due, it must be assumed, to a primordial impulse. This motion gives rise to volume. The more rapid the movement the greater the space occupied by the atom,...short, matter of different density forms different substances—different inconvertible elements, as they have been considered. "But further, these more... | |
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... uniform in size and weight. We shall have one substance and a common atom. With the atom at rest the uniformity of matter would be perfect. But the atom possesses always more or less motion, due, it must be assumed, to a primordial impulse. This motion... 
