Abstract
III. PART II.—ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM. §12. Electrostatic Attraction. THOMSON's investigations, considered in § I (August 23, p. 404), rest on the assumption that the diameter of a molecule or atom is indefinitely small in comparison with the wave-length of the light, and therefore the conclusions do not hold good for light-vibrations of such small wave-length as to be comparable with the molecular diameters. The consideration of vibrations of this kind shows that they give rise to what are called electrical phenomena.
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DE TUNZELMANN, G. Molecular Physics: an Attempt at a Comprehensive Dynamical Treatment of Physical and Chemical Forces 1 . Nature 38, 578–581 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038578a0
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