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I WILL reply to the last paragraph of Dr. Lodge's letter in NATURE of March 19 (p. 463) in his own language. I have no objection to contemplate a piece of isolated zinc surrounded by straining oxygen atoms, each negatively charged. And on the hypothesis that such atoms exist, I have no difficulty in realizing the depression of potential of the zinc, nor do I fail to appreciate the momentary transfer of electricity accompanying the sudden approach of the crowd of oxygen atoms when contact is made between the zinc and copper.
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BURBURY, S. Modern Views of Electricity. Nature 43, 515 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043515b0
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