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fortunate to be able to show with some degree of probability 

 that this form of atom contains the potentiality, which may 

 some time be more fully realized, of explaining these experi- 

 mental observations. 



Synopsis. 



1. The number of electrons per gram of any substance 

 is approximately constant. This follows from any atomic 

 theory which makes the number of electrons per atom pro- 

 portional to the atomic weight. If the electrons per atom 

 are approximately equal to the atomic weight, as in this 

 theory, then the well-known gram-molecule constant 6 x 10 23 

 is equal to the number ot electrons per gram of any 

 substance. Since, in neutral atoms, a positive electron 

 having a fixed volume accompanies each electron, it follows 

 that the volume of all the positive electricity in a gram is 

 also constant. This volume is found by multiplying the 

 volume of the unit positive electron by the number, 6 X 10- 3 , 

 of electrons per gram. In a previous paper the volume and 

 radius of the positive electron were determined in absoluie 

 dimensions, 2'7xl0~ 36 cu.cm., or '86 x 10~ 12 cm. radius. 

 Multiplying this volume by 6 x 10 23 gives l'B^X 10" 12 cu.cm. 

 as the volume of all the atoms in a gram of any substance, 

 the electrons being within the positive electricity. The 

 coincidence of this volume per gram with the reciprocal of 

 the quantity 10 12 , which those who have taken this view 

 of the aether consider represents its density, is very sig- 

 nificant. Working in the reverse way from the aether density 

 as a basis, the radius of the positive electron comes out 

 *735 x 10~ 12 cm. Taking the radius of the electron as 

 '593 x 10 -13 cm., the volume of the positive electron is 1900 

 times that ef the electron. The mass of the atom is accounted 

 for by the larger volume of the positive electricity, the ratio 

 of the volume of the positive to the negative electricity being 

 the ratio of the masses of the hydrogen atom to the electron. 

 On this view the mass of positive or of negative electricity 

 is the same for equal volumes, equal to 10 12 grams per cu.cm., 

 the aether density, and the mass of any piece of matter may 

 be calculated in grams by multiplying the volume filled bv 

 all its atoms by 10 12 . 



2. Beta particles in radioactive transformations may come 

 from any electron in the atom, since the order of magnitude 

 of the electron orbits is 10 ~ 12 cm. In the central nucleus 

 theory they cannot come from the outside rings, and must be 

 restricted to the inner electrons or the nucleus itself. 



3. The theory shows that a limit of atomic weights should 



