Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
rics.—Explanation of induction. —Induction takes place at a distance by polarizing the molecules ofthe intervening non-conductor. Because air, and other non-conductors,permit the passage of electrical influence in this manner, they are calleddielectrics, in distinction from electrics. Therefore, in… … dielectric). TJiiis, if I* (Fig. 9) be the prime conductor, and N thecylinder, let the small circles between them represent molecules of air(or any other intervening dielectric medium), and they will all bejjolarized, as it is termed, having their negative ( —) parts or polesturned toward the…
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