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Show Component Parts of an Atom. Tho atomic theory has been abandoned aban-doned by all; the atom la known positively posi-tively to be decomposable. It Is tho number of Us corpusclos, or Ions, that determines the character of tho atom, i An atom mado up of 700 corpuscles 1 Is a hydrogen atom; ono of 11,200 cor-i cor-i puscles Is oxygen, etc. Hut what aro tho corpuscles? Sir William Crookcs points outthat in 187G that daring J Bplrlt, William Klngdon Clifford, ltd-' ltd-' vaiigmg upon Bomo vaguo specula-I specula-I tions of Faraday and Sir William 1 Thomson (now Lord Kelvin), wroto 1 definitely: "There Is great reason to bollevo that every material atom car-i car-i vies upon It a small electric current-It current-It it does not wholly consist of this current." |