John Mayow and his theories

• Book ID: 104117443
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1911
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 46 KB
• Volume: 171
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(11)90578-x

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meter needle. With vaseline in the ordinary semi-fluid state there is n• after-effect, indicating that in this state vaseline is a perfect insulator w th a dielectric e0nst~'nt I 97 When the cell between the condensers is filled with liquid vaseline and the vaseline allowed to ¢ool and solidify, anamolous effects are observed, which the author explains by assuming that vaseline acts as a medium containing free ions, whose mobility is zero in the semi-fluid state but :observable in the liquid state.