Experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America . F 2 LET* 36 Mr B. F R ANKL INs LETTER IV. CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ^;^^ SUPPOSITIONS, towards for^ning a new Hyp o th e s i s, for ex-•plaining the feveral Phenomena of Thun-der-Gusts,* SIR, On-ele(!tric bodies, that have eledricfire thrown into them, will retain it tillother non-eled:rics, that have lefs, ap-proach 5 and then tis communicated by a fnap, and be-comes equally divided. 2. Electrical fire loves water, is flrongly attracted by it,and they can fubfift together. 3. Air is an eleftric/^r^^, and when dry wi
Experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America . F 2 LET* 36 Mr B. F R ANKL INs LETTER IV. CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ^;^^ SUPPOSITIONS, towards for^ning a new Hyp o th e s i s, for ex-•plaining the feveral Phenomena of Thun-der-Gusts,* SIR, On-ele(!tric bodies, that have eledricfire thrown into them, will retain it tillother non-eled:rics, that have lefs, ap-proach 5 and then tis communicated by a fnap, and be-comes equally divided. 2. Electrical fire loves water, is flrongly attracted by it,and they can fubfift together. 3. Air is an eleftric/^r^^, and when dry will not con-dud: the eleftrical fire j it will neither receive it, nor give * Thunder-gufls are fudden llorms of thunder and lightning, whichare frequently of foort duration, but fometiipes produce mifchievouscfFeds. it. Letters on Electricity. 37 it to other bodies ; otherwife no body farrounded by aircould be eleftriiied politively and negatively : for fhould itbe attempted politively, the air v^ould immediately takeaway the overplus -, or negatively, the air v/ould fupplywhat was wanting. 4. Water being eleftriiied, the vapours arifing from itwall be equally eleftrified ; and floating in the air^ in theform of clouds, or otherwife, will retain that quantity ofeledirical fire, till they meet with other clouds or bodiesnot fo much eledlrified, and then will communicate as be-forementioned. 5. Every particle of matter eleclriiied is repelled byevery other particle equally eledtrified. Thus the ftreamof a fountain, naturally denfe and continual, when eledlri-fied, will feparate and fpread in the form of a brufh, everydrop endeavouring to recede from every other drop. Buton taking out the eleftrical fire, they clofe again. 6. Water being ftrongly eledirified (as well as whenheated by common fire) rifes
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