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 LONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN 



PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE 



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JOURNAL OF SCIENO 



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[SIXTH SERIES] 



DECEMBER 1922. 



G. Atomic Systems based on Free Electrons, positive and 

 negative, and their Stability. By R, Hargreaves, M.A.* 



Part I. — Steady Motion. 



IN the atomic scheme of which a planetary system is the 

 model, negative electrons have the position of planets, 

 and a positive charge is condensed at a central nucleus. It 

 is then postulated from experience, chemical, electrical, and 

 spectroscopic, that the nucleus shall contain an integral 

 number of standard charges. But if this postulate is 

 essential, it seems imperative to provide a structure in which 

 positive as well as negative electrons are discrete. The 

 scheme with multiple core takes no account of the mutual 

 repulsion of members of the core, and so ignores the primary 

 conception of separate existence attaching to an integral 

 number. An orbital motion, which the scheme provides, is 

 however in all probability an essential feature of the atomic 

 aggregate. 



For the present scheme the two types of electron 

 furnish the raw material ; they are assumed to be discrete, 

 to carry charges differing only in sigu, and to possess 

 inertias differing widely in amount. It is found possible 

 to realize kinetic structures in which these constituents 

 are bound together by the electrical forces due to their 

 mutual action alone. There is no need to suppose the 

 normal laws of attraction and repulsion to be in abeyance, 



* Communicated by the Author. 

 Phil. May. Ser. 6. Yol. 44. No. 264. Dec. 1922. 3 Z 



