Magnetism and Atomic Structure

Abstract

ON the cubical atom theory developed by Lewis and Langmuir it appears that the molecules of CO₂ and N₂O have almost identical electron configurations. A. O. Rankine has shown from viscosity data that each electron system is equivalent to that of three adjoining neon atoms in line. The writer is not aware that attention has been directed to the fact that the specific susceptibilities of gaseous CO₂, and N₂O are —0.423×10^—6 and −0.429×10^—6 (Také Soné, Science Reports, Tôhoku, vol. viii., p. 162, 1919, and Proc. Phys. and Math. Soc. Japan, vol. ii., p. 84, 1920) and their molecular susceptibilities −18.6×10⁻⁶ and −18.8×10^—6 respectively.