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-XXVII.—On Molecular Physics ; by Prof. W. A. Norton. | 
[Continued from vol. xxxviii, page 223.] 
4 former part of this paper a succinct exposition has been 
1 Of @ consistent general theory of Molecular Forces, and 
ecular Constitution of bodies, and special theories of the 
ent States of aggregation of matter, and the processes of 
“eed from two fundamental principles, viz: 
To paper on heat-vibrations, by Mr. James Sa published in the ovggees 28 
> tay, 1864, it is maintained that the heat-vibration does not co 
Motion of an aggregate mass of molecules, but in a motion of the individual 
. ions of th 1 
i theory of heat-vibrations, or heat-pulses, 
‘s remarks that his conclusion that “ hie aieinints atom itself is essentially 
m 
" a. Put in the present communication the ground is 
ic ethereal ; the at that invests it with 
ere atom th 
oply of power. * tmosphere condensed upon the atom 1 n with 
expan ~ © molecule an e itome, in fact, of the universe. In the contractions 
be disc that result fans the action of t atom upon its atmosphere 
foreeg d etned the origin not only of heat-vibrations, but of all the molecular 
res, depett, the varied ible movem nd changes of molecular atmos- 
ba causes of Upon their elasticity and mutual action, are to be fou 
Sone: Physical phenomena, 
"™ Scl.—Szconp Szaies, Vou. XXXIX, No. 117.—Mar, 1865. 
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