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Experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America . throwing aaadditional quantity of this fluid on one furface, whichfpreading in the non-eledric, and being bound by it tothat furface, aSs by its repelling force on the particles of thecleftrical fluid contained in the other furface, and drivesthem out of the glafs into the non-eleftric on that jfide,from whence they are difcharged, and then thofe addedon the charged fide can enter. But when this is done,there is no. more in the glafs, nor lefs than before, jufl: asmuch having left it on one fide as it received on the I feel a want of terms here, and doubt much whe-ther I ihall be able to make this part intelligible. By thevjovdi fiirfacey in this cafe, I do not mean mere length andbreadth without thicknefs V b\it when! fpeak of the up-per or under furface of a piece of glafs, the o^te^ or in-ner furface of the vial, I mean length, breadth, and halfthe thicknefs, and beg the favour of being fo , I fuppofe, that glafs in its firfl: principles, and in the ^^f^^*y^ ooujt,.
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