The word contiguous is perhaps not the best that might have been used here and elsewhere; for as particles do not touch each other it is not strictly correct. I was induced to employ it, because in its common acceptation it enabled me to state the theory plainly and with facility. By contiguous particles I mean those which are next.—Dec. 1838.
I use the word dielectric to express that substance through or across which the electric forces are acting.—Dec. 1838.
Mémoires de l'Académie, 1786, pp. 67. 69. 72; 1787, p. 452.
Mémoires de l'Académie, 1785, p. 570.
Philosophical Transactions, 1830.
It can hardly be necessary for me to say here, that whatever general state the carrier ball acquired in any place where it was uninsulated and then insulated, it retained on removal from that place, notwithstanding that it might pass through other places that would have given to it, if uninsulated, a different condition.
Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. vi. p. 504.
Refer for the practical illustration of this statement to the supplementary note commencing 1307, &c.—Dec. 1838.
Mémoires de l'Académie, 1787, pp. 452, 453.
Philosophical Transactions, 1834, pp. 223, 224, 237, 244.