WHILST preparing some experiments for a lecture on this matter, I found a very simple device to demonstrate the important fact that radium rays are very easily transmitted through a high vacuum; and I ...

THE following striking experiment to show the rapidity of the influence of sulphuric acid in removing the invisible film of moisture that in ordinary circumstances adheres to the surface of glass and ...

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