 | Charles Hanford Henderson, John Francis Woodhull - 1900 - 416 Seiten
...made by different physicists. The illustration given by Lord Kelvin is the most familiar. He suggests that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, its molecules would appear as large as tennis balls. 9 According to Maxwell, the very smallest particle... | |
 | John Fiske - 1900 - 504 Seiten
...hydrogen ; within ninety years from that time Sir William Thomson was able to tell us that " if the drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the constituent atoms would be larger than peas, but not so large as billiard balls." Such a statement... | |
 | Jerome Bruce Crabtree - 1901 - 792 Seiten
...and so small that each has a range of motion greater than its own dimensions. Lord Kelvin estimated that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth its molecules would be about the size of a pea. The size of an atom is inconceivable, for our molecules... | |
 | John Iredelle Dillard Hinds - 1902 - 608 Seiten
...to the naked eye contains more molecules than there are people on the earth. Lord Kelvin calculated that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth the molecules, correspondingly enlarged, would be smaller than cricket balls, but larger than small shot. Illustrations.—... | |
 | Henry S. Brooks - 1902 - 88 Seiten
...has ventured to convey to the unscientific a definite conception of this elusive atom as follows : " If a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the molecules would each occupy a space somewhat larger than a small shot." In a gas these molecules are in violent... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1902 - 874 Seiten
...well recognised methods of physical computation. Lord Kelvin bus used the illustration that, supposing a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the ultimate particles would appear to us between the size of cricket balls and footballs. I venture to... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 568 Seiten
...hydrogen; within ninety years from that time Sir William Thomson was able to tell us that " if the drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the constituent atoms would be larger than peas, but not so large as billiard balls." Such a statement... | |
 | Frank William Miller, Aug. Frederic Foerste - 1903 - 438 Seiten
...inch. It has been calculated that if a globe of water, the size of a football six inches in diameter, were magnified to the size of the earth, the molecules of water would occupy spaces greater than those filled by small shot and less than those filled by footballs. These... | |
 | 1904 - 1060 Seiten
...us try to imagine the size of an atom. Lord Kelvin is our informant on this point, and he calculates that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the atoms in it would be somewhere between the size of small shot and cricket-balls. This gives some faint... | |
 | Caleb Williams Saleeby - 1904 - 390 Seiten
...colour, and, using the wave-lengths of light of differing colours, has mathematically demonstrated that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth its atoms would be between the size of small shot and of cricket-balls. Now conceive such an atom and... | |
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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 cricketball and of a marble. 
