 ... same power of the distances. Or, to express it more concisely, if you look upon the electric fluid as matter of a contrary kind to other matter, the particles of all matter, both those of the electric fluid and of other matter, repel particles of...  Cavendish - Page 176by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach - 1996 - 414 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Chemistry - 1813 - 562 pages
...that there exists an electric fluid, the particles of which repel each other, but are attracted by all Other matter with a force inversely as some less power of the distance than the cube. This paper is not susceptible of abridgement ; but it deserves the careful study of every electrician.... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Meteorology - 1809 - 792 pages
...fluid and of other matter, repel particles of the same kind, and attract those of a contrary kind, with a force inversely as some less power of the distance than the cube. For the future, he would be understood never to comprehend the electric fluid under the word matter,... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Agriculture - 1813 - 514 pages
...that there exists an electric fluid, the particles of which repel each other, but are attracted by all other matter with a force inversely as some less power of the distance than the cube. This paper is not susceptible of abridgment ; but it deserves the careful study of every electrician.... | |
 | Medicine - 1813 - 554 pages
...that there exists an electric fluid, the particles of which repel each other, but are attracted by all other matter with a force inversely as some less power of the distance than the cube. This paper is not susceptible of abridgement ; but it deserves the careful study of every electrician.... | |
 | Sir William Snow Harris - 1851 - 218 pages
...following way, which, although quite original with him, in no sense differs from that of JSpinus. " There is a substance which I call the electric fluid,...which repel each other and attract the particles of common matter with a force inversely at some less power of the distance than the cube : the particles... | |
 | Henry Cavendish, James Clerk Maxwell - Electricity - 1879 - 538 pages
...fluid and of other matter, repel particles of the same kind, and attract those of a contrary kind, with a force inversely as some less power of the distance than the cube. 4] For the future, I would be understood never to comprehend the electric fluid under the word matter,... | |
 | Henry Cavendish - Electric power - 1879 - 588 pages
...fluid and of other matter, repel particles of the same kind, and attract those of a contrary kind, with a force inversely as some less power of the distance than the cube. 4] For the future, I would be understood never to comprehend the electric fluid under the word matter,... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1888 - 576 pages
...wrote his paper. Cavendish also speaks of an electric fluid, the particles of which repel each other with a force inversely as some* less power of the distance than the cube, and attract the particles of other matter by the same law. Every body iu its natural state is saturated... | |
 | Fernando Sanford - Concrete - 1919 - 148 pages
...fluid and of other matter, repel particles of the same kind, and attract those of a contrary kind, with a force inversely as some less power of the distance than the cube. In his paper on "Thoughts Concerning Electricity" T' Cavendish says: Def. 1. When the electric fluid... | |
 | 1919 - 570 pages
...had made use of nearly the same hypothesis in 1759. Cavendish says in describing his hypothesis : 78 There is a substance, which I call the electric fluid, the particles of wffich repel each other and attract the particles of all other matter with a force inversely as some... | |
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