| 单词 | electrical fluid |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselectrical fluid electrical fluid n. now historical = electric fluid n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > [noun] > assumed source of electric fire1736 electric fluid1749 electrical fluid1750 fluid1751 1750 B. Franklin Let. 29 July in Papers (1961) IV. 11 The beneficial Uses of this Electrical Fluid we are not yet well acquainted with; tho' doubtless such there are and great ones; but we may see some pernicious Consequences. 1865 B. Silliman Princ. Physics (ed. 2) iii. iii. 535 Philosophers generally agree in attributing the phenomena of electricity to the existence of an assumed electrical fluid. 1909 Science 12 Feb. 257/1 The negative ions, or, as Franklin would have stated it, the electrical fluid, flows through what we now call the positive ions. 2004 S. Wills & S. Wills Meteorology ii. 37 Most scientists believed there were two kinds of electrical fluid, existing in equal amounts in all objects; when an object became electrified, some of one kind of fluid was destroyed, leaving an excess of the other. < as lemmas |
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