{By assuming certain molecules endowed with poles
or p points of attraction & repulsion as Boscovich
has done. & giving them gravitation & form. ie
weight & measure all the phaenomena of
chemistry may be accounted for they will form spherical
masses when their attractions balance the repulsions
& fluids or aeriform substances
& chemical combination will depend upon particles
meeting so as to be in polar relations -
So that their spheres of attraction may coincide; but
we may suppose inherent powers (thus we suppose
the iron naturally polar with respect
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to the magnet - Heat may assist chemical
action by the enlarging the sphere of action
ie by expanding bodies - [xx] electrical attractions
& repulsions [xx] an increase of primary
corpuscular attractions - conductors polar throughout
nonconductors multipolar ) imperfect conductors | [unpolar.] |
' paucipolar - Transparent bodies [con] nonconductors
particles further removed, & they are polar
with respect to light -, certain liquids imperfect
conductors when flui solid nonconductors - This
owing either to [xxxx] chrystaline arrangements which
interferes with the communication of polarity, quere }