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id, or liquid bodies, should conduct electricity better 
larization induced, and therefore of the resistance resulting 
; fom it, must depend upon the condition of the interstitial elec- 
ine ether (p, 243), and the distance between the molecules ; since 
ve Interval of time in which the repulsive impulses propagated 
4 ton of the particles; more especially as different groups of par- 
*) OF compound molecules (p. 241), may offer different de- 
~, Munication with the ground and afterward with the charged 
— conductor of an electrical machine, the electricity will flow 
ely along the route thus opened, and the tension of the ether 
“Ing over a being very feeble there will be no perceptible 
a, 
Connected with the prime conductor, to be placed near an- 
ad ’ 
® same time polarize the particles of the surrounding 
3 i ica, of non-conductors resist the flow of free electricity after the same 
ee ‘Internal mass, that i 
is, by their molecules becoming polarized, 
