| Methodist Church - 1876 - 782 pages
...combinations. He gives us no comparative statement of their size, as one modern author does, who thinks that " if a drop of water were magnified to the size of our globe, the molecules composing it would be magnified to sizes varying from the size of shot to... | |
| Methodist Church - 1876 - 778 pages
...combinations. He gives us no comparative statement of their size, as one modern author does, who thinks that " if a drop of water were magnified to the size of our globe, the molecules composing it would be magnified to sizes varying from the size of shot to... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1905 - 908 pages
...of their size we must betake ourselves to a scheme of threefold magnification. Lord Kelvin has shown that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth the molecules of water would be of a size intermediate between that of a cricketball and of a... | |
| Alfred Daniell - Physics - 1884 - 686 pages
...concludes — Thomson and Tait, Natural Philosophy, voL i. part 2, App. F, 1883, and Nature, July 1883 — that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the molecules or granules would each occupy spaces greater than those filled by small shot,... | |
| National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 642 pages
...millionth of an inch, or less than the iOOO millionth. These dimensions he has illustrated thus — " If a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the atoms of which it is composed would appear larger than small shot, but they would not be... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1885 - 1240 pages
...interesting speculations, founded upon physical phenomena, respecting the probable size of the atom, viz., ' that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the constituent atoms would be larger than small shot, but smaller than cricket balls.' Again,... | |
| Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) - Religion and science - 1888 - 362 pages
...is best given by means of the illustration already cited, which we owe to Sir William Thompson, who said that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, and the molecules of water magnified in the same proportion, they would certainly appear larger... | |
| Russell Hinman - Physical geography - 1888 - 404 pages
...microscope. Some idea of their extreme smallness may be gathered from Sir William Thomson's estimate. He says that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, its molecules, so magnified, would be about as large as base-balls. Common Properties of Matter.... | |
| Rufus Phillips Williams - Chemistry - 1888 - 248 pages
...0° and 760 mm pressure contains 10 24 molecules, ie one with twenty-four ciphers. Thomson estimates that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, and its molecules increased in the same proportion, they would be larger than fine shot, hut... | |
| John Duncan Quackenbos - Physics - 1891 - 572 pages
...molecule itself would probably occupy about one twentieth. Another way of stating the size is to say that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the molecules would occupy spaces greater than those filled by small shot, and less than those... | |
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