 | Michael Faraday - Electricity - 1839 - 614 pages
...particular matter or matters, or mere motion of ordinary matter, or some third kind of power or agent, yet there is an immensity of facts which justify us in...qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity. As soon as we perceive, through the teaching of Dalton, that chemical powers are, however, varied the... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - Heat - 1843 - 498 pages
...electricity be a material agent, sui generis, or mere motion of ordinary matter, Dr. Faraday maintains, that " the atoms of matter are in some way endowed...they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst others, their mutual chemical affinity," — and he has endeavoured to ascertain experimentally, the... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - Electricity - 1855 - 574 pages
...xi. Electro-chemical equivalents coincide, or are the same with ordinary chemical equivalents. (502) The theory of definite electro-chemical action led...current, powerful enough to retain a platinum wire rir of an inch in thickness, red-hot, must be sent through it fop three minutes and three quarters,... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - Electricity - 1855 - 570 pages
...xi. Electro-chemical equivalents coincide, or are the same with ordinary chemical equivalents. (502) The theory of definite electro-chemical action led...affinity. Now, to decompose a single grain of acidulated wafer, an electric current, powerful enough to retain a platinum wire TOT of an inch in thickness,... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - Heat - 1859 - 658 pages
...electricity be a material agent, sui generis, or mere motion of ordinary matter, Dr. Faraday maintains, that " the atoms of matter are in some way endowed...which they owe their most striking qualities, and among others, their mutual chemical affinity," —and he has endeavoured to ascertain experimentally,... | |
 | Edward Cornelius Towne - Life - 1887 - 52 pages
...most of those relating to vegetable and animal life, will ultimately be found subordinate to it." " There is an immensity of facts which justify us in...powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities. ... It is wonderful to observe how small a quantity of a compound body is decomposed by a certain portion... | |
 | Self-culture - 1895 - 710 pages
...what an atom is, . . . and though we are in equal, if not greater, ignorance of electricity, . . . yet there is an immensity of facts which justify us in...qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity. As soon as we perceive, through the teaching of Dalton, that chemical powers are, however varied the... | |
 | Edmund Taylor Whittaker - Electricity - 1910 - 502 pages
...it would take to liberate n atoms of hydrogen.f The quantitative law seemed to FaradayJ to indicate that " the atoms of matter are in some way endowed...and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity." Looking at the facts of electrolytic decomposition from this point of view, he showed how natural it... | |
 | Ernest William Hobson - Science - 1923 - 538 pages
...of electrolysis. In this connection he made the statement, of great significance at the present day, that "the atoms of matter are in some way endowed...and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity." The concentration of Faraday's attention on the dielectric media was rewarded by the discovery that... | |
 | Ernest William Hobson - Science - 1923 - 532 pages
...of electrolysis. In this connection he made the statement, of great significance at the present day, that " the atoms of matter are in some way endowed...and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity." The concentration of Faraday's attention on the dielectric media was rewarded by the discovery that... | |
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... the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity. 
