260 THE MOLECULAR PROCESS IN MAGNETIC INDUCTION, 



ment exhibits. Each molecule is a member of a larger community, 

 and has probably many neighbors close enougli to aflect its conduct. 

 We get a better idea of what happens by considering four magnets 

 (Fig 6). At first, in the absence of deflecting magnetic force, they 

 group themselves in stable pairs — in one of a number of jiossible com- 

 binations. Then — as in the former case — when magnetic force is ap- 

 plied, they are at first slightly deflected, in a manner that exactly 

 tallies with what I have called the stage a of the magnetizing process. 



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Fig. 7. 



Fig. 8. 



Next comes instability. Tlie original ties break up, and the magnets 

 swing violently round ; but finding a new possibility of combining 

 (Fig. 7), they take to tliat. Finally, as the field IkS further strengthened 

 they are drawn into perfect alignment with the ai^plied magnetic force. 

 (Fig. 8). 



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Fig. 9. 



We see the same three stages in a multiform group (Figs. 9, 10, 

 11). At first, tlie group, if it is shuffled by any casual disturbance, 

 arranges itself tit random in lines that give no resultant polarity (Fig. 



