Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . of the size and weight ap- some y rays, which appear to representpropriate to the electron. Different an ethereal pulse,—an analogue as itatoms, that is atoms of different kinds were of the sound-wave caused by theof matter, are all believed to be com- explosion or act of firing; and (3), moreposed in the same sort of way ; but if the important than either, a third kind ofatoms of a substance are such that each projectile called the a rays, which arepossesses 23 times as many electrons as newly formed atoms of foreign matter orhy
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . of the size and weight ap- some y rays, which appear to representpropriate to the electron. Different an ethereal pulse,—an analogue as itatoms, that is atoms of different kinds were of the sound-wave caused by theof matter, are all believed to be com- explosion or act of firing; and (3), moreposed in the same sort of way ; but if the important than either, a third kind ofatoms of a substance are such that each projectile called the a rays, which arepossesses 23 times as many electrons as newly formed atoms of foreign matter orhydrogen has, we call it sodium. If each new substance. These are pitched awayatom has 200 times as many as hydrogen, with extraordinary violence as the atomwe call it lead or quicksilver. If it has breaks up, they produce by their bom-still more than that, it begins to be con- bardment of zinc sulphide the bright littlespicuously radioactive. flashes seen in Crookess spinthariscope, It would seem as if the excessive radia- and they likewise generate heat when. ELECTRIC THEORY OF MATTER.
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