When all these bodies are raised to E 1, the ultimate
physical atoms are set free, identical, of course, with that previously
described. Reckoning up the number of ultimate physical atoms in a chemical
atom of nitrogen we find they amount to 261, thus divided:--
62 + bodies with 2 ultimate atoms, 62 x 2 = 124
24 - " " 2 " " 24 x 2 = 48
21 - " " 3 " " 21 x 3 = 63
2 + " " 3 " " 2 x 3 = 6
2 + " " 4 " " 2 x 4 = 8
2 + " " 4 " " 2 x 6 = 12
----
261
This again approaches closely the weight-number assigned to nitrogen:--
261 / 18 =14.44 +
This is interesting as checking the observations, for weight-numbers are
arrived at in so very different a fashion, and especially in the case of
nitrogen the approximation is noteworthy, from the complexity of the bodies
which yield the number on analysis.
Some other observations were made which went to show that as weight-numbers
increased, there was a corresponding increase in the number of bodies
discerned within the chemical atom; thus, gold showed forty-seven contained
bodies; but these observations need repetition and checking.
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