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. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...last strenuously opposed to any conception which involved the idea of the evolution of the chemical elements from a primordial unique form of matter. The periodic scheme of arrangement is, however, so suggestive of some process of evolution that chemists and physicists have been for many years fascinated by ...
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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. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...last strenuously opposed to any conception which involved the idea of the evolution of the chemical elements from a primordial unique form of matter. The periodic scheme of arrangement is, however, so suggestive of some process of evolution that chemists and physicists have been for many years fascinated by the inquiry how such numerical relations can be accounted for if they are not to be understood as indicating a common origin, or the operation of some genetic process. Since the discovery of the periodic law several forms of hypothesis have been brought forward. Among the earlier hypotheses the most notable is associated with the name of Sir William Crookes, who, since its original presentation in 1886, has on several occasions reiterated and amplified the expression of his views. Crookes' ideas on the "Genesis of the Elements " are based on a revival of the hypothesis of the existence in the dawn of the universe of a primal "urstoff" or "protyle" consisting of an infinite number of immeasurably small particles gradually accreting out of formless mist and moving with inconceivable velocity in all directions. These fine particles are assumed to have gradually heaped themselves into masses of increasing size, by the operation of the selective process which results from the tendency of particles with approximately the same rate and kind of motion to separate from a crowd and to keep together. Now, picturing in imagination the influence of lowering temperature, operating concurrently with the action of the imponderable matter or source of energy called electricity, it may be supposed that at intervals clusters of particles are formed having a more or less stable character, and that these clusters correspond to the atoms of the "elements" of the...
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