Merchant, F. W. (Francis Walter), 1855-1937, Chant, Clarence Augustus, 1865-1956 · Toronto : Copp Clark · leaf 207
take the sameposition but, in doing so, turns in the opposite direction. The wire evidently possesses new properties when the stripsat its terminals are placed in the dilute acid. The new properties of the wire are said to be due to a cur-rent of electricity, ivhich passes through the wire. The… … 200 THE ELECTRIC CURRENT must not push tlie analo<:jy betwoeu tlie two cases too far.As to what eloctricity really is we are in entire ignorance.There may be no actual motion of anything through the con-ductor, though recent investigations somewhat favour thatview, but since the current can do…
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