 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - Chemistry - 1908 - 1366 pages
..." Now the most startling result of Faraday's law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot...portions, which behave like atoms of electricity. As long as it moves about in the electrolytic liquid, each ion remains united with its electric equivalent... | |
 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - Chemistry - 1922 - 1468 pages
...fundamental electrical magnitude, the charge of the electron. In his Faraday Lecture, Helmholtz said : " If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid the conclusion that electricity, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1906 - 602 pages
...his Faraday lecture, delivered in 1 88 1, which marks an epoch in the ion theory, Helmholtz says: "If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we can not avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1890 - 634 pages
...Gases. (Preliminary Communication.)" By ARTHUR SCHUSTER, FRS Received and Read March 20, 1890. " If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid eoncluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary... | |
 | Science - 1881 - 904 pages
...electric charge of the atom. Now, the most startling result, perhaps, of Faraday's law is this : If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we can not avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1882 - 480 pages
...view which, so far as I know, is novel, and certainly is what he calls it, "startling." He says, "If we accept the hypothesis, that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot help concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1882 - 484 pages
...view which, so far as I know, is novel, and certainly is what he calls it, "startling." He says, "If we accept the hypothesis, that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot help concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1887 - 1176 pages
...called the dissociation-point for compounds. In this space the lion and the lamb would lie down 1 ' If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances...portions, which behave like atoms of electricity.' — Helmholtz, Faraday Lecture, 1881. 2 • I can easily conceive that there are plenty o£ bodies... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Natural history - 1895 - 310 pages
...theoretical deductions, and which will probably receive increased attention in the immediate future : — "If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding1 that electricity, also positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Theosophy - 1888 - 732 pages
...President (at Birmingham, 1886). This is what Helmholtz says (in his Faraday Lectures, 1881) : — " If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we ca.inot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite... | |
| |
Now the most startling result of Faraday's law Is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite... 
