...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...