 | 1884 - 572 pages
...avoid too great a vagueness in the subsequent explanations. The assumption which I shall make is this : In a gas the passage of electricity from one molecule...an interchange of the atoms composing the molecule. I shall also try to prove that many facts are easily explained by the assumption that the molecules... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1884 - 556 pages
...avoid too great a vagueness in the subsequent explanations. The assumption which I shall make is this : In a gas, the passage of electricity from one molecule...an interchange of the atoms composing the molecule. I have been much struck with the results of some experiments recently made by Mr. LJ Blake in Professor... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1884 - 688 pages
...avoid too great a vagueness in the subsequent explanations. The assumption which I shall make is this : In a gas the passage of electricity from one molecule...an interchange of the atoms composing the molecule. I shall also try to prove that many facts are easily explained by the assumption that the molecules... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1884 - 572 pages
...avoid too great a vagueness in the subsequent explanations. The assumption which I shall make is this: In a gas, the passage of electricity from one molecule...an interchange of the atoms composing the molecule. I have been mnch struck with the results of some experiments recently made by Mr. LJ Blake in Professor... | |
 | 1885 - 900 pages
...— in which a large crop of negative results can be reaped — but these negative results I can not regard entirely as thistles. I have tried the following...up at the negative pole," and in his comments upon thia law he remarks that a molecule of mercury consists of a single atom ; but mercury has a very brilliant... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 860 pages
...the heat that is radiated from a surface. I have endeavored to discover whether an electrical cm-rent first cools a conductor before it heats it, as we...seem to militate against the hypothesis. On the other band, if an essential part of the glow discharge is due to the breaking up of the molecules, we, might... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 856 pages
...deposited, and those molecules which have been only under the influence of ordinary gravitation force. of attracting force — whether gravitative or the...up at the negative pole, " and in his comments upon thia law he remarks that a molecule of mercury consists of a single atom ; but mercury has a very brilliant... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1884 - 764 pages
...avoid too great a vagueness in the subsequent explanations. The assumption which I shall make is this : In a gas the passage of electricity from one molecule...an interchange of the atoms composing the molecule. I shall also try to prove that many facts arc easily explained by the assumption that the molecules... | |
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Nature" (July 3, 1884, page 230), gives some of the results of his recent investigation of gases subjected to electrical discharges, and believes himself justified in making the following hypothesis : " In a gas the passage of electricity from one molecule... 