A Manual of Chemistry, on the Basis of Turner's Elements of Chemistry Containing, in a Condensed Form, All the Most Important Facts and Principles of the Science; Designed as a Text-Book for Colleges and Other Seminaries of Learning (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Manual of Chemistry, on the Basis of Turner's Elements of Chemistry: Containing, in a Condensed Form, All the Most Important Facts and Principles of the Science; Designed as a Text-Book for Colleges and Other Seminaries of Learning

It is believed that the particles of a substance, even the most solid, are never in actual contact, but are held in close proximity by the two opposite forces of attraction and repulsion; and that the particular state, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, in which a body is seen, depends upon the relative intensity, for the time, of these forces.

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