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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Conduction, Electric" Volume 6, Slice 8

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CONDUCTION, ELECTRIC. The electric conductivity of a substance is that property in virtue of which all its parts come spontaneously to the same electric potential if the substance is kept free from the operation of electric force. Accordingly, the reciprocal quality, electric...

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1. VOLUME VI, SLICE VIII

CONDUCTION, ELECTRIC. The electric conductivity of a substance is that property in virtue of which all its parts come spontaneously to the same electric potential if the substan...

2. vivid. The spectrum of the phosphorescent light is generally continuous,

but Crookes showed that the phosphorescence of some of the rare earths, such as yttrium, gives a spectrum of bright bands, and he founded on this fact a spectroscopic method of...