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During the last fifteen years, owing to the discoveries of Henri Becquerel, the Curies, Sir J. J. Thomson and his pupils, especially H. R. C. Wilson, Rutherford, Soddy, Perrin, and others, the ancient doctrine of the discrete nature of matter and the hypotheses of the existence of atoms and molecules have received new confirmation. Johnstone Stoney's "atom of electricity," the electron, has been shown to be separable from matter, and to be capable, under certain circumstances, of independent existence. It has also been made evident that the electron must be regarded as a kind of "element," with much stronger claims to "elementary," that is undecomposable, characters than the bodies hitherto ranked as "elements." It is with the object of presenting a consistent sketch of the progress of theory in this field that this book has been written.

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