Michel Jullian wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> > Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 6:35 AM > Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Army paper on lifters > > >> "Ion" is a Greek word isn't it? > > Ion means "something that goes" in Greek. Scientific term introduced by > Faraday in his Experimental Researches in Electricity, seventh series (1834): > > http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14986 > " > 665. Finally, I require a term to express those bodies which can pass to the > electrodes, or, as they are usually called, the poles. Substances are > frequently spoken of as being electro-negative, or electro-positive, according > as they go under the supposed influence of a direct attraction to the positive > or negative pole. But these terms are much too significant for the use to > which I should have to put them; for though the meanings are perhaps right, > they are only hypothetical, and may be wrong; and then, through a very > imperceptible, but still very dangerous, because continual, influence, they do > great injury to science, by contracting and limiting the habitual views of > those engaged in pursuing it. I propose to distinguish such bodies by calling > those anions158 which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those > passing to the cathode, cations159; and when I have occasion to speak of these > together, I shall call them ions. > " > -- > Michel >
Faraday demonstrates his own preference for the atomic hypothesis when he uses the term "those bodies". Harry
