These again finally disintegrate, setting free the
ultimate physical atoms, identical with those obtained from hydrogen. The
number of ultimate atoms contained in the gaseous atom of oxygen is 290,
made up as follows:--
2 in each bead, of which there are 110:
7 in each bright spot, of which there are 10;
2 x 110 + 70 = 290.
When the observers had worked out this, they compared it with the number of
ultimate atoms in hydrogen:--
290 / 18 = 16.11 +
The respective number of ultimate atoms contained in a chemical atom of
these two bodies are thus seen to closely correspond with their accepted
weight-numbers.
It may be said in passing that a chemical atom of ozone appears as an
oblate spheroid, with the contained spiral much compressed and widened in
the centre; the spiral consists of three snakes, one positive and two
negative, formed in a single revolving body. On raising the chemical atom
to the next plane, the snake divides into three, each being enclosed in its
own egg.
The chemical atom of nitrogen was the third selected by the students for
examination, as it seemed comparatively quiet in contrast with the
ever-excited oxygen.
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