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body), others disruptive (that is to say, effected by the mechan- | 
ical disjunction of the particles of.the interposed substance), _ 
gases. I should never have done if I were to attempt to ex- 
plain all the experiments which he made to elucidate these dif- 
ferent points and to arrive at an idea of the actual nature o 
the electric current. The identity of the current, whatever 
mit all Faraday’s ideas, it 
