Particles

Examples

• Let it suffice h ere to state that Rutherford assumes that the greater mass of the atom consis ts o f negatively charged particles rotating about a positive nucle us. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• And yet molecules are made up of even smaller particles, called atoms. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The whole atmosphere could not consist of such groups of three because the watery particles were but a small portion of the total a tmosphere. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• If the distance is short, so that few air particles are involved, the time required for transmission is very brief, and the sound is heard at practically the instant it is made. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The particles are not dissolved in the water, but are held there in suspension, as we call it technically. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Each series contains an emanation, or gas, which through the loss of α particles is transformed into the next following member of the series. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The brush being dipped into the coloured matter, the comb is passed over the brush in such manner as to cause the paint to spatter the object with fine drops or particles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Gases and carbon particles are set free by the burning wick. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In falling from different heights toward this commo n focus the particles cannot have such perfect equality of resistance that no la teral movements should be set up. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Now only the image-forming silver bromide particles remain, and these have been transformed to metallic silver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Naturally these experimental facts were to be explained in terms of the ultimate particles of which the various gases are composed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Nothing fell upon the ground but a few particles of froth, which slowly detached themselves from the rim, and trickled lazily down. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In filtration, the water is forced through porcelain or other porous substances which allow the passage of water, but which hold back the minute foreign particles suspended in the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• One of the latest forms of such a collector has for its essential principle the vertical or rotatory air current, which it is claimed moves and precipitates the finest particles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Learned men tell us that all hot bodies and all luminous bodies are composed of tiny particles, called molecules, which move unceasingly back and forth with great speed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When attacked by pyro, those silver bromide particles which have been affected by light--and only those--change to black metallic silver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If the quantity of air is insufficient, the carbon particles remain unburned and form soot. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When sunlight enters a dark room through a small opening, the dust particles dancing in the sun show a straight ray. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The puddles which collect at the foot of a hill after a storm are muddy because of the particles of soil gathered by the water as it runs down the hill. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When this vapor meets a cold wind or is chilled in any way, condensation takes place, and a mass of tiny drops of water or of small particles of snow is formed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The silver particles held this image, but not visibly--it is a latent image, and it is the purpose of development to bring it out. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• All the tiny particles that make up the dish have absorbed some heat and have expanded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Before the filterer was invented it was almost impossible for the manufacturer of chewing gum to produce gum entirely free from particles of grit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Water, in the same manner, will dissolve in air, every particle of air assuming one or more particles of water. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Repulsion, as well as attraction, plays a part among the particles of matter disseminated in space. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• So blackened by the flying particles of rubbish as to be unrecognisable, they ran back from the gateway into the street, crying and shrieking. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• These coarse particles, or clinkers, absorb water very slowly, are practically inert, and have very feeble cementing properties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Floating around in the atmosphere are dust particles which ought not to get into the lungs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If a cold object is held in the bright flame of an ordinary gas jet, it becomes covered with soot, or particles of unburned carbon. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He had to return to the conception of the individual particles of oxygen, nitrogen, and water, each a center of repulsion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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