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Annalen der Physik und Chemie, No. 10.—The loss of electricity by an insulated charged body in rarefied gas in an envelope that has conductive connection with the earth is here stated by Herr Narr to be due to two processes distinct in time and intensity, the first, one of outflow, rapid and intense, the other, one of dispersion, slow and weak. The intensity of the former increases with decreasing density of each of the gases used (CO2 air and H), and also on substituting one gas for the other in the order just given, the density remaining constant. These differences between the gases decrease with the density, and in vacuum fal within the limits of errors of observation. In discussing these results, Herr Narr is led to regard the condensed layer of gas on the conducting system as an insulator, not as a conductor.—Dr. Holz finds that the specific magnetism of magnetic ironstone is the greatest of all magnetic substances hitherto examined. Its maximum permanent magnetism is nearly as great, and partly greater than that of steel as hard as glass. Its permanent magnetism is sooner removed in demagnetisation with the same external forces than that of steel, &c.—Dr. Strouhal enunciates the laws of a mode of sound-production not much studied hitherto, that, viz., of rapid swinging of a rod, a blade, or the like, in air, or the passage of air-currents over strong wires or sharp edges, &c. —Herr Braun contributes a long and (interesting paper on the development of electricity as equivalent of chemical processes.— Herr Koch demonstrates the applicability of the method of determining coefficients of elasticity from the bending of short bars supported at the two ends, the sinking in the middle being measured by means of Newton's interference-bands, and he suggests a more thorough investigation of the elasticity of crystals, by the improved means he describes.—Some remarks on the atomic weight of antimony, with reference to Cooke's recent research, are communicated by Herr Schneider.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 19, 185–186 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/019185a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/019185a0