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ON ELECTRICAL ATTRACTIONS AND REPULSIONS. 



XVI. 



An Essay on Electrical Attractions and Repukims; by 

 Mr * 



"Two mafn?tic xVAY" experiments on magnetism, which give this property 

 M u ids r~ 



to several needles in opposite directions by a- single electri- 



cal bhock, led me to doubt the existence of two fluids, 



which, according to the theory of Mr. Coulomb, repel each 



other in every section of a magnet. From this doubt arose 



Aif there two a -^rond. I said to myself, do- electrical repulsions exist 



•!••( rim! H lids %vl t.hout previous attraction ? in other words, are there two 



I ., • ' el e ctric al nuuls, possesHug wttn respect to each other the 



* Jtrorr iue> vol. LXI11, p. 078. 



repulsive 



