 To form some conception of the degree of coarse-grainedness indicated by this conclusion, imagine a globe of water or glass, as large as a football,1 to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each constituent molecule being magnified in the same proportion....  On Earthquakes: Collected Pamphlets]. - Seite 174von T. J. J. See - 1907Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph J. Kockelmans - 516 Seiten
...the whole drop up to the size of the earth, the structure, he tells us, would be more coarsegrained than a heap of small shot, but probably less coarse-grained than a heap of footballs.6 Now I propose later to return to the atomic hypothesis. At present I will only ask the... | |
 | 750 Seiten
...opaque solid, the mean distance between the centres of contiguous molecules is less than the 1/5,000,000 and greater than the 1/1,000,000,000 of a centimeter....probably less coarsegrained than a heap of footballs." § ii. On the Molecular Constitution of Matter and on the Penetrability of Solids by Fluids. — In... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1908 - 762 Seiten
...opaque solid, the mean distance between the centres of contiguous molecules is less than the 1/5,000,000 and greater than the 1/1,000,000,000 of a centimeter....probably less coarsegrained than a heap of footballs." § II. On the Molecular Constitution of Matter and on the Penetrability of Solids by Fluids. — In... | |
 | Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club - 1890 - 590 Seiten
...imagine a globe of water or glass as large as a football (or say a globe of 16 centimetres in diameter), to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each...grained than a heap of small shot$ but probably less coarse grained than a heap of footballs." As to the law of intermolecular force, we are still in more... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait William Thomson - 2022 - 596 Seiten
...coarse-grainedness indicated by this conclusion, imagine a rain drop, or a globe of glass as large as a pea, to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each...grained than a heap of small shot, but probably less coarse grained than a heap of cricket-balls. * M. Lippmann has arrived at a very similar estimate of... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1883 - 724 Seiten
...coarsegrainedness indicated by this conclusion, imagine a globe of water or glass, as large as a football,3 to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each...proportion. The magnified structure would be more coarse-grained than a heap of small shot, but probably less coarse-grained than a heap of footballs.... | |
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