This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...water and anybody were to drop a little iodine into it, after a certain time the whole of the water would be found to be tinged of a blue colour. Now that drop may be introduced into any part of the tank you like, either at the top or-bottom, and it will always diffuse itself over the whole water. There has ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...water and anybody were to drop a little iodine into it, after a certain time the whole of the water would be found to be tinged of a blue colour. Now that drop may be introduced into any part of the tank you like, either at the top or-bottom, and it will always diffuse itself over the whole water. There has here again been motion. We cannot suppose that the drop which was introduced was the only thing that moved about, because any other substance would equally have moved about. And the water has moved into the place where the drop was, because in the place where you put the drop there is not so much iodine as there was to begin with. Well then it is clear that m the case of a gas, these particles of which we have shown it to consist must be constantly in motion; and we have shown also that a liquid must consist of parts that are in motion, because it is able to admit the particles of another body among them. When we have decided that the particles of a gas are in motion, there are two things that they may do--they may either hit against one another, or they may not. Now it is established that they do hit against one another, and that they do not proceed along straight lines independent of one another. But I cannot at present explain to you the whole of the reasoning upon which that conclusion is grounded. It is grounded upon some rather hard mathematics. It was shown by Professor Clerk Maxwell that a gas cannot be a medium consisting of small particles moved about in all directions in straight lines, which do not interfere with one another, but which bound off from the surfaces which contain this medium. Supposing we had a box containing a gas of this sort. Well, these particles do not interfere with one another, but only rebound when they come...
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