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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe 100 YEARS AGO In your report of the meeting of the Physical Society of October 31, I find the following sentence given as having been said by


me in the course of some remarks on Mr. Ridout's paper on the size of atoms, with the four words which I underline accidentally omitted. “If the electrions, or atoms of electricity,


succeeded in getting out of the atoms of matter, they proceeded with _velocities which might exceed_ the velocity of light, and the body was radioactive.” The omission of those four words


made it appear that I had considered the velocity of the escaping electrions to be essentially the velocity of light. In reality, the electrions may escape with velocities possibly less or


possibly more than the velocity of light, but certainly not all with one definite velocity... Kelvin This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS


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