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Definition of Molecules
1. molecule [n] - See also: molecule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Molecules
Literary usage of Molecules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dynamical Theory of Gases by James Hopwood Jeans (1904)
"EXTENSION TO molecules OF THE MOST GENERAL CONSERVATIVE TYPE. 71. IN the present
chapter we abandon the supposition that the molecules are hard and smooth ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"this happens they become free gaseous molecules, and move off in straight lines
under the impulse of the force which set them free until they come into ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Let these molecules have any number of degrees of freedom (which number of degrees
may be different in the different sets), and let them be acted upon by ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"A gas must be conceived as composed of an almost infinite number of such molecules,
jostling each other in every conceivable way. The rate of one-third of a ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"Clausius, of Bonn, who first gave us precise ideas about be motion of agitation
of molecules, calls this distance the mean path fa molecule. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"A body in which all the molecules were at rest relatively to one another would be a
... The molecules of the two surface-layers will exert forces upon one ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"The theory proposed is, that the solution of a salt in water is a consequence of
the attraction of the molecules of water for a molecule of salt, ..."
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