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Page 35
IRIDIUM (Plate XVIII, 5.)
The twenty-one-atomed cone of silver here reappears, and its proceedings
may be followed under that metal (see diagram, p. 729, May). The remaining
bodies call for no remark.
PLATINUM (Plate XVIII, 6).
Again the silver cone is with us. The remaining bodies are set free on the
proto level, and their contained spheres on the meta.
LITHIUM (Plate IV, 2, and XIX, 1).
[Illustration]
Here we have some new combinations, which recur persistently in its allies.
The bodies _a_, in Plate XIX, 1, are at the top and bottom of the ellipse;
they come to right and left of it in the proto state, and each makes a
twelve-atomed body on the meta level.
The five bodies within the ellipse, three monads and two sextets, show two
which we have had before: _d_, which behaves like the quintet and quartet
in silicon, after their junction, and _b_, which we have had in iron. The
two bodies _c_ are a variant of the square-based pyramid, one atom at the
apex, and two at each of the other angles. The globe, _e_, is a new form,
the four tetrahedra of the proto level making a single twelve-atomed one on
the meta. The body _a_ splits up into triplets on the hyper; _b_ and _d_
follow their iron and silicon models; _c_ yields four duads and a unit; _e_
breaks into four quartets.
POTASSIUM (Plate XIX, 2).
Potassium repeats the lithium spike; the central globe shows the "nitrogen
balloon," which we already know, and which is surrounded on the proto level
with six tetrahedra, which are set free on the meta and behave as in
cobalt. Hence we have nothing new.
RUBIDIUM (Plate XIX, 3).
Again the lithium spike, modified slightly by the introduction of an ovoid,
in place of the top sphere; the forms here are somewhat unusual, and the
triangles of the sextet revolve round each other on the meta level; all the
triads break up on the hyper level into duads and units.
FLUORINE (Plate IV, 3, and Plate XVII, 1).
The reversed funnels of fluorine split asunder on the proto level, and are
set free, the "balloons" also floating off independently. The funnels, as
usual, become spheres, and on the meta level set free their contained
bodies, three quartets and a triplet from each of the eight. The balloons
disintegrate in the usual way.
MANGANESE (Plate XVII, 2).
Manganese offers us nothing new, being composed of "lithium spikes" and
"nitrogen balloons."
* * * * *
X.
VI.--THE STAR GROUPS.
We have now reached the last of the groups as arranged on Sir William
Crookes' lemniscates, that forming the "neutral" column; it is headed by
helium, which is _sui generis_. The remainder are in the form of a flat
star (see Plate IV, 4), with a centre formed of five intersecting and
"cigar"-bearing tetrahedra, and six radiating arms. Ten of these have been
observed, five pairs in which the second member differs but slightly from
the first; they are: Neon, Meta-neon; Argon, Metargon; Krypton,
Meta-krypton; Xenon, Meta-xenon; Kalon, Meta-kalon; the last pair and the
meta forms are not yet discovered by chemists. These all show the presence
of a periodic law; taking an arm of the star in each of the five pairs, we
find the number of atoms to be as follows :--
40 99 224 363 489
47 106 231 370 496
It will be observed that the meta form in each case shows seven more atoms
than its fellow.
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