He's playing an electroscope blues like a hurricane. From Wordnik.com. [The Crescent Caretaker] Reference
Making a simple voltaic cell, an electro-magnet, and a simple electroscope. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
I now show you by this electroscope that these charges are unlike in character. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888] Reference
An electroscope measured the tension between two aluminum plates in the Vacor Tube. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
Janie dancing, bending away and cleaving to him as if he and she were the gold leaves of an electroscope. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Human]
Pat looked at his electroscope, and saw that it indicated a noticeable increase in the presence of cosmic rays. From Wordnik.com. ["Cosmic Fever" by Amelia Reynolds Long, part 2] Reference
A charge is given to the electroscope, and the time required for a given degree of collapse of the leaves noted. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
~ Compounds of radium affect a photographic plate or electroscope even through layers of paper or sheets of metal. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
To = temp above accumulator; Ti = temp within; T = control (room temp) El = electroscope; = direction of radiation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
The electroscope will now insulate well enough to show no appreciable collapse of the leaves in one or two hours 'time. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
W tie a silk thread, S T, on the lower end of which may be tied a piece of pith or material to serve as an electroscope. From Wordnik.com. [How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity] Reference
It affects photographic plates even in complete darkness, and discharges a gold-leaf electroscope when brought close to it. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Now put the electroscope on to the top of the balloon. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
Henley's pith-ball electroscope was his recording instrument. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]] Reference
"But is it possible that Edith has not shown you the electroscope?". From Wordnik.com. [Equality] Reference
He also speaks of an electroscope that will telegraph rays of light. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6] Reference
The electroscope leaves spread apart, and the glass rod is removed. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
An electroscope is charged by touching it with a positive glass rod. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Becquerel also showed that these rays can discharge an electroscope. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Curie] Reference
However, instead of the usual electroscope, I used a more perfect apparatus. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Curie] Reference
Some other very interesting facts have been observed by means of the electroscope. From Wordnik.com. [The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal] Reference
It is then coiled on a frame and its rate of discharge measured by the electroscope. From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference
In this I decided to use that property of the rays which enabled them to discharge an electroscope. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Curie] Reference
Then a negatively charged plastic rod is brought close to the top of the electroscope but doesn't touch it. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
A sensitive gold-leaf electroscope is attached to the aluminium plate, and its image thrown upon the screen. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
To make sure it works, you're going to test the electroscope with an object with a lot of static electricity. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
The instrument available for radio-activity measurements is a modified type of the old gold-leaf electroscope. From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference
Take the household objects you have chosen as test subjects, and one by one put the electroscope on top of them. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
You must see to it that everybody wears his X-ray film all the time - and I mean all the time - and his electroscope. From Wordnik.com. [Rocket Ship Galileo]
He states that his school has no good Air Pump, nor Spectroscope, nor modern electroscope of any kind nor a gramme machine. From Wordnik.com. [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference
(Where had he seen ... worked with ... an electroscope?. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Human]
Will she be able to discharge a gold-leaf electroscope without touching it? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow World] Reference
"Really a very sensitive gold leaf electroscope, devised by one of the students of Madame Curie. From Wordnik.com. [The War Terror] Reference
"I took the electroscope to the table in the corner; then placed it in the circle near the medium. From Wordnik.com. [The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal] Reference
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