Logan Republican | 1904-02-20 | Page 5 | Component Parts of an Atom

Component Part of an Atom. The atomic theory has been abandoned aban-doned hy all; tho atom U known positively posi-tively to be decomposable It is the number ot Its corpuscles, or Ions, that determines the character of tho atom. An atom made up of 700 corpuscles Is a hydrogen atom; one of 11,200 corpuscles cor-puscles Is oxygen, etc. Hut what aro the coipuseles? Sir William Crookes points out thnt In 1875 that daring spirit, William Kingdon Clifford, advancing ad-vancing upon some vague speculations specula-tions of Fnraday and Sir William Thomson (now Lord Kelvin), wioto definitely: "There is great reason to believe that every material atom carries car-ries upon it a small electric current it it does not wholly consist of this current."