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Sd do platinum plates coated with oxygen and hydrogen 

 i:espectively. I can now tell the amount of the force, and 

 calculate how great a proportion of chemical affinity is used 

 up electrolytically, before two such discs come within to-o uth 

 of an inch of one another, or any less distance down to a limit 

 within which molecular heterogeneousness becomes sensible. 

 This of course will give a definite limit for the sizes of atoms, 

 or rathei*, as I do not believe in atoms, for the dimensions of 

 molecular structures." 



