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CONSTITUTION OF WATER.
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portion of water in this little vessel C, and besides the water there are two plates of the metal platinum, which are connected with the wires (A and B) coming outside, and I want to
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examine that water, and the state and the condition in which its particles are arranged. If I were to apply heat to it you know what we should get, it would assume the state of vapour, but it would nevertheless remain water, and would return to the liquid state as soon as the heat was removed. Now by means of these wires (which are connected with the battery behind me, and come under the floor and up through the table) we shall have a certain
