¶ Conceptual Physics (1)
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Index Entry
Encyclopedia Britannica, (14th. Ed.); 1947: Article on “Crystallography,” pp. 808-809:
“Homogeneous solid matter, the physical and chemical properties of which are the same about every point…Physical properties vary with the direction… viz, the general properties, such as density, specific heat, melting-point, and chemical composition, which do not vary with direction; and the directional properties, such cohesion and elasticity…”
RBF:“The word ‘solid’ is not scientific. When they say ‘homogenous matter,’ what they mean is the isotropic vector matrix. To say that any chemical properties vary with direction of the ‘solid’ is inherently wrong, Matter consists only of atoms whose nuclei are vastly denser and differently-behaved from the internuclear voids.”
¶ Citations
- RBF marginalia at above citations, done at 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC; 27 Jan’77
