﻿AND 
  BATTERY 
  DISCHARGER, 
  ETC., 
  ETC. 
  373 
  

  

  would 
  it 
  not 
  be 
  consistent 
  that 
  the 
  fluids 
  which 
  give 
  rise 
  to 
  them, 
  

   should 
  combine 
  agreeably 
  to 
  those 
  laws 
  ? 
  But 
  if 
  the 
  electrical 
  com- 
  

   pound, 
  formed 
  of 
  the 
  vitreous 
  and 
  resinous 
  electricities, 
  be 
  decomposable 
  

   by 
  induction, 
  as 
  the 
  theory 
  in 
  question 
  requires, 
  its 
  constituents 
  must 
  

   be 
  capable 
  of 
  uniting 
  in 
  every 
  proportion. 
  

  

  Agreeably 
  to 
  the 
  late 
  investigations 
  of 
  the 
  celebrated 
  Faraday, 
  equal 
  

   quantities 
  of 
  the 
  electric 
  fluid 
  are 
  evolved 
  by 
  analogous 
  chemical 
  changes, 
  

   in 
  equivalent 
  weights 
  of 
  different 
  ponderable 
  bodies. 
  It 
  may 
  there- 
  

   fore 
  be 
  inferred, 
  that 
  in 
  entering 
  into 
  combination 
  the 
  electric 
  fluid 
  

   is 
  obedient 
  to 
  those 
  laws 
  of 
  definite 
  proportion 
  which 
  regulate 
  other 
  

   substances. 
  

  

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  v. 
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