W. A. Norton on Molecular Physics, 251 
2 condition, essentially, that we suppose a particle of water to 
exist, 
wo constituent molecules, oxygen and hydrogen, 
are not polarized, or but feebly so, and they are, to a certain de- 
Bree, in conducting communication with each other.” 
_Indeveloping the theory of the voltaic current, let us confine 
_ our attention to the case of a single cell, consisting of water, or 
3 polarized molecules extends to the copper plate. 
Th this chain, as first established, we regard each particle of 
oe 
: idk hot absolutely essential to the explanation of the voltaic current that the 
28 a When combined, should be reganded as devoid of polarization. 
0 
ation to be given, fur the compound molecule, as it is not ¢ 
- Gregg Ports itself throughout essentially as a simple molecule would under like 
i en. It is to be observed that the process 0: polarization above considered 
: tance, ‘sion an excess of electric. ether upon the entire molecule of the one sub- 
Re . deficieney on the entire molecule of the other; since when a molecule 
hit ip, ol@rized it absorbs upon the one side the same amount of electric ether 
all these he other side (p. 242 : 
u If the remarks the term molecule is used in the same sense as heretofore. 
tage estituent molecules of each water particle were not in conducti 
mol 'on, then the ac 
This ob jecti les and thus to bind them more closely rather than to sep 
ms i hOnbein’s theory. 
Seems to hold against Schonbein 
