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AN interesting and instructive variant of Prof. Mayer's experiment with floating magnets, which has been used so much to illustrate the structure of atoms, is to do away with the centripetal magnetic force and to arrange that its place be taken by forces arising from capillarity. This is managed as follows:—
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PORTER, A. Models of Atoms. Nature 74, 563–564 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074563a0
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