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" 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 cricket ball and of a marble. "
Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher - Page 570
1899
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Science, Volume 22

John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1905 - 908 pages
...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 marble....
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A Text book of the principles of physics

Alfred Daniell - 1884 - 684 pages
...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, less than...
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The national encyclopędia. Libr. ed, Volume 2

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 as large...
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Report of the Annual Meeting

British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1885 - 1240 pages
...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, Helmhollz...
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Introduction to Chemical Science

Rufus Phillips Williams - Chemistry - 1888 - 248 pages
...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 not so large...
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Eclectic Physical Geography

Russell Hinman - Physical geography - 1888 - 396 pages
...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. —...
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The Credentials of Science the Warrant of Faith

Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) - Religion and science - 1888 - 360 pages
...us to assign limits to their magnitude on either side ; and Sir William Thomson has estimated that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the world, the atoms of which it consists would certainly appear larger than boys' marbles, and with equal...
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Appletons' School Physics: Embracing the Results of the Most Recent ...

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 occupied...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 45

Science - 1894 - 904 pages
...results, we may assume that their approximate size is known. According to Lord Kelvin's computation, if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth its molecules would become larger than shot and smaller than cricket balls, perhaps about the size...
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The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal ..., Volume 48

Education - 1899 - 928 pages
...again, and each time charged with fresh odor. His lowest estimate makes the drop to contain .32OX lO*4 particles, each capable of affecting the olfactory...cubic inches, a cubic inch of the gas will contain I64XIO20 (nearly) of molecules. Equal volumes of all gases, the temperature and pressure being the...
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