 | Norman Robert Campbell - 1921 - 216 Seiten
...assume that the molecules, though extremely small,1 have some size and once that assumption is made, 1 If a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the molecules would be about the size of cricket balls. laws are predicted which had not been discovered at the time... | |
 | Henry Chase Hill - 1921 - 622 Seiten
...When a great scientist named Sir William Thomson was asked about the size of a molecule, he replied: "If a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the molecules would each occupy spaces greater than those filled by small shot and smaller than those occupied by... | |
 | Norman Robert Campbell - 1921 - 212 Seiten
...assume that the molecules, though extremely small,1 have some size and once that assumption is made, 1 If a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the molecules .would be about the size of cricket balls, laws are predicted which had not been discovered at the... | |
 | 1921 - 554 Seiten
...the character of their motion. *NOTE. — Sir William Thomson estimated that if a drop of water be magnified to the size of the earth, the molecules of water would each be less than the size of a baseball and larger than small shot. Ques. How do the molecules move... | |
 | Edmund Edward Fournier d'Albe - 1924 - 190 Seiten
...size of atoms, or rather of those simple combinations of different atoms called "molecules," by saying that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the molecules of the water would appear as large as cricket balls. They would be sufficiently far apart to move about... | |
 | 1924 - 962 Seiten
...meaning than the present-day billion and trillion mark quotations, let us resort to a few analogies. If a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the constituent atoms would be about the size of footballs. Or, to use a variation of this analogy, if... | |
 | 1924 - 848 Seiten
...meaning than the present-day billion and trillion mark quotations, let us resort to a few analogies. If a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the constituent atoms would be about the size of footballs. Or, to use a variation of this analogy, if... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1925 - 346 Seiten
...the radius of an atom, assumed as spherical, is about 10~10 meter, or, as it has been expressed — if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the atoms in it might be expected to be about baseball size. But the "radius" of an electron is supposed... | |
 | Samuel Field, Samuel Robert Bonney - 1925 - 294 Seiten
...properties of the compound, are called molecules. So small are they that the late Lord Kelvin stated that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, then with the same magnification, molecules would vary in size from marbles to cricket balls. Again,... | |
 | Robert Martin Caven - 1927 - 272 Seiten
...necessary to know the actual size of the molecules, and the distances between them. Lord Kelvin used to say that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, the size of the molecules within it would be between that of small shot and of cricket balls. It has been... | |
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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. 
