[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years. — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most impressive illustration of all is to suppose that you could label the molecules in a tumbler of water. ... threw it… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
![“[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.” quote by Francis William Aston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/247/francis-william-aston-44310_air_s-uppose-you-make-a-hole-in-an-ordinary_2762745.jpg)
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![“If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings of atoms so formed would reach over six million million miles.” quote by Francis William Aston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e13/francis-william-aston-44310_atoms_if-the-atoms-in-a-decimetre-cube-of-lead_2343157.jpg)
