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Excerpt from Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Vol. 11: With Abstracts of the Discourses Delivered at the Evening Meetings; 1884-1886
We can only arrive at one conclusion from this experiment, viz. That the retention of apparent magnetism is simply due to a frictional resistance to rotation; and whenever this frictional resistance is reduced, as when we take off a mechanical strain, or by making the bar red hot, the molecules then rotate with an almost inconceivable freedom from frictional resistance.
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