To form some conception of the degree of coarse-grainedness indicated by this conclusion, imagine a rain drop, or a globe of glass as large as a pea, to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each constituent molecule being magnified in the same proportion.... Nature - Page 274edited by - 1883Full view - About this book
| Karl Pearson - 1911 - 420 pages
...football, then if we could magnify the whole drop up to the size of the earth, the structure, he tells us, would be more coarse-grained than a heap of small...probably less coarse-grained than a heap of footballs. 1 Now I propose later to return to the atomic hypothesis. At present I will only ask the reader to... | |
| Karl Pearson - Classification of sciences - 1911 - 426 pages
...football, then if we could magnify the whole drop up to the size of the earth, the structure, he tells us, would be more coarse-grained than a heap of small...shot, but probably less coarse-grained than a heap of footballs.1 Now I propose later to return to the atomic hypothesis, j At present I will only ask the... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Calculators - 1912 - 564 pages
...coarse-grainedness indicated by this conclusion, imagine a rain drop, or a globe of glass as large as a pea, to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each...proportion. The magnified structure would be more coarse grained than a heap of small shot, but probably less coarse grained than a heap of cricket-balls.... | |
| University of Missouri - Science - 1912 - 320 pages
...compounds to a certain extent, of primary forms of matter." or a globe of glass as large as a pea, to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each...proportion. The magnified structure would be more coarse grained than a heap of small shot, but probably less coarse grained than a heap of cricket balls."... | |
| Sir William Augustus Tilden - Chemistry - 1913 - 390 pages
...Imagine a globe of water, or glass, as large as a football (or say a globe of 1t5 centimetres diameter), to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each...probably less coarse-grained than a heap of footballs." — Lecture at Royal Imt., Feb. 1883. iv] BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 137 covichian doctrine of centres of force,... | |
| Alfred Fairhurst - Evolution - 1913 - 502 pages
...coarsegrainedness indicated by this conclusion, imagine a globe of water or glass, as large as a football, to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each...probably less coarsegrained than a heap of footballs." It is said that the smallest object visible under the microscope is y<,ooo of a millimetre, which is... | |
| Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1914 - 300 pages
...imagine a globe of water or glass as large as a football to be magnified up to the size of the earth — the magnified structure would be more coarse-grained...probably less coarse-grained than a heap of footballs." Due to the advance of science along many different lines, molecular magnitudes can now be stated with... | |
| Harold Lindsay Amoss - 1915 - 274 pages
...infinitesimal particles, Lord Kelvin says: "Imagine a rain drop or a globe of glass as large as a pea, to be magnified up to the size of the earth; each constituent being magnified in the same proportion. The magnified structure would be coarser grained than a heap... | |
| Homeopathy - 1911 - 670 pages
...the size of the molecule is as follows: "Imagine a rain drop or a globe of glass as large as a pea, to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each...the same proportion. The magnified structure would not be coarser-grained than a heap of small shot, but probably less coarse-grained than a heap of cricket... | |
| Sir Joseph Larmor - 632 pages
...coarse-grainedness indicated by this conclusion, imagine a rain drop, or a globe of glass as large as a pea, to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each...same proportion. The magnified structure would be coarser grained than a heap of small shot, but probably less coarse grained than a heap of cricketballs.... | |
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