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Atoms Broken Into Fragments Called Ions

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 18, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 38.

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Atoms Broken Into Fragments Called Ions

LATE experiments have succeeded in breaking up into a thousand fragments what has been supposed to be the ultimate atom. Each of these fragments is called an ion. So, unless the term “atom” be still carried back to express the thought of the smallest possibly conceivable body, the new word “ion” will have to be permanently adopted to express that thought.