agitation of, 80, 81, 194 Moseley’s discovery, 196, 203; atomic numbers, 198, 200, 203; atomic weights, 202; X-ray frequencies equal, 246 Moseley’s law, 204 f.; inexactness of, 216 , value of, in electrolysis, 31; in gases, 35, 262 , discrepancies, 168 ff.; in gases, 34, 125, 166 f.; value of, for electrolysis, 30, 31; value of, for negative and positive ions, 125 Norman Bridge Laboratory, 4 Nucleus: of atom, 193; charge on, 195; number of electrons in, 207, 277, 281 Peltier effects, 20 Perrin’s value of , 170 Photo-electric effect, 236, 244, 246, 255 Planck’s , 117, 212, 213, 242, 245, 261 Positive and negative electrical charges, , 12 Quantitative measurements in gases, 147 Quantum theory of radiation, Einstein’s, 237 f.; Planck’s, 253 Radiant energy, 242, 245; nature of, 232 Radiation, black-body, 237; discontinuous, 244; quantum theory of, 237, 253; theories of, 232; Thomson’s ether-string theory, 236, 237 Radium, conductivity in air due to, 33; as ionizing agent, 53, 57, 79; mechanism of ionization by, 125; structure of atom of, 230 Resistance to motion independent of charge, 86 Rutherford’s method, 277 Rydberg constant, 210, 282; value of, 282 Ryerson Laboratory, 4, 37, 93, 94, 95, 150, 178, 209, 239 Stark effect, 219 Stefan-Boltzmann constant , 117, 261 Stokes’s law, 48, 49, 52, 55, 63, 66, 167; correction of, 98 f., 101, 113, 162; failure of, 90 ff., 93, 98, 163; limits of validity of 95 ff. Sub-electron, 161 f., 166, 175, 181 Thomson-Einstein hypothesis, 253 Valency in gaseous ionization, 127 f. Velocity of agitation of molecules, 8; of emission of electrons under monochromatic light, 245 Velocity of drop, 86, 101 Vienna Academy, 153, 175 Viscosity of air, 93 Wave theory, 233, 234 Wien constant , 117, 261 X-rays, 23, 33, 39, 40, 46, 50, 57, 192, 204, 235, absorption of, 199; Duane’s method, 214; frequencies, 202, 246; ionizing agent, 79, 126, 134; and series, 204; and light, 248; mechanism of ionization by, 125; monochromatic 246; photographs of spectra, Fig. 21; spectra, 196, 200; spectrometer, 197; wave-lengths of metals, 197 PRINTED IN THE U.S.A