10,000 MILES A SECOND
0 Continuing a series of lectures on ‘‘Electricity and Matter’ at the Royal Institution Sir Ernest Rutherford said it had now been established that all electricity was atomic. What were known as “Alpha" particles moved through space at the rate of' 10,000 miles a second. If an atom collided with another the weaker of the two was diverted and turned completely round, so that it went in, a direction opposite tn that from which it started. An experiment 'with some magnets attached to corks placed in a bowl of water provided a diversion. As the magnets were placed in the water one by one they repelled each other. When five or six were in the bowl they formed a circle with one in the middle. By manipulation of the electric current controlling the magnets the corks were made to advance or retreat from each other, "as if playing a game of Sally is a weeping.”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7742, 11 July 1921, Page 4
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