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perature, volume, and elasticity of bodies. No such inconsistency has 
hitherto been proved ; but even were such inconsistencies to be prove 
no objection toa molecular hypothesis can affect the certainty of the ~ 
two laws of thermo-dynamics, which, though at first anticipated as the — 
results of a hypothesis, have now been independently established by ex- _ 
periment. : 
With respect to the molecular mechanism that may be supposed to — 
give rise to the expansion of certain liquids in cooling, near their 
stance, the author finds, except 
a to be always diamagnetic, and 
uat The influence of 
utboee, curious ae 
the shape of pointed and flat poles is stu 
nomena of rotation, pe observed by M. Pla 
to the action of two co 
mence at the foundation of fe eis 
the present case is the follow 
repulsion oe in virtue of a state 
y is first thrown? This asmuind | is answered i in a manner “shi 
admits of no dou bt. 
It is proved that the repulsion « diamagnetic bodies increases in @ 
quicker ratio than the strength of the magnet which produces the 
pulsion. Within wide limits, iictead, the repulsion, instead of being 
‘ . y 
of the Nigane of diamagnetic bodies with the attraction of - 
netic ones: both are found subservient to one same } 
