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THE publication of my experiments on “Floating Magnets,” in the American Journal of Science and in NATURE, was made merely as a claim to this new method of experimenting. I now send you the law of the morphology of their configurations, and show how these experiments illustrate the phenomena of allotropy, isomerism, expansion or solidification of water, bismuth antimony, &c., the atomic hypothesis, and the kinetic theory of gases.
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MAYER, A. FLOATING MAGNETS . Nature 18, 258–260 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018258a0
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