A dissertation on elective attractions / by Torbern Bergmann ; translated from the Latin by the translator of Spallanzani's dissertations.

Bergman, Torbern, 1735-1784. Disquisitio de attractionibus electivis. English

Date:: 1785

Credit: A dissertation on elective attractions / by Torbern Bergmann ; translated from the Latin by the translator of Spallanzani's dissertations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$eleBivc attraBion ; when between two compounds, each conhfting- of only two proximate principles, which are ex- changed in confequence of mixture, it is intitled double attraBion. I am parti- cularly to cgnfider the two laft fpecies. \ II. Single EleBive AtlraBions. / Suppose^ to be a fub fiance for which other heterogeneous fubfiances a, c, _&c. have an attradlion 3 fuppofe, fur- ther, Aj combined with c to faturation, (this union I Ihall call Ac'), fhould, up- on the addition of b, tend to unite with it to the exclafion of c, A is then faid to attradl b more firongiy than c, or to have a fironger eledlive attradllon for it ; laflly, let the union of Ab, on the addition of a, be broken, let b be rejedl- ed, and a chofen in its place, it will fol- }ow, that a exceeds b in attractive power, and$