Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1846-09-08


location Of those gases Thus Nitrogen is the producer
oxygen and carbon are The realners ami loca.ors OF
e!ectrcltv so that when Oxygen, and nitrogen generally
pervade the atmosphere there is also general spse4 Of
electricity in it, .. air 10 en clear ami ole and
generally fi we'll strong and active II the eectri
city positive it is COOL if negative it warm. Il hv
droren enters in with the Oxygen and.Itroren clouds
are quickly formed, hydrogen carres The
water to them, and the electricity which they
forms them INTO cIou4 and when c.rhon Is present thu
cloud becomes strongly. ernoied ana positively clectri-
fed and produces & thander-guSt When thu cloud IS
positive and the atmosphere below !. positive there Is
stropr ,nsiup "a ind because the electricity OF the cIoa!
repes the electricity Of the atmosbere and drives +.
swiftly he fare II aud Il rcrtion NJ M ano.1,hr. he
low !. heavily cbarqed with ox,.,.D ana carbon i makes
strong charge Of positive electricity in that portion OF
the air and violent hurricane produced by tho tv re-
pulsIye rincnlcs acfnt, on eac, either In these c~,
the lightning viii not run down Ia the pround b.caus
the positive Will NOT go 10 TN. oosye so that in the
time Of storm Of wind there i no dancer from lght-
ning If the clond ]. Ligh and heavily oxyIatr. the re
" III he hail bee ause tie electricity holds the cloud strong
" together and holds It there until The particles freeze
and form large bodies before they are allowed to il out
If the sphere below negatively chargrl wltl.
elcctricy or more procrl to say the trcitv low
is in the negative state, there Will be bat little stir
wind: d positive cloud viii not disturb IL: no the two
PRINCIPLES Will rather aproach eac, other than other
wise it will be likely to rain heavily ana The Lightning
will run down 10 the GROUND with heavy shocks Of thun-
der and trees barns houses Sc which are charged in
the negative principle wi, be in danger Of beng struck
it, because the positive viii seek the negative and
run TO It. Nov, Is tn. lime that the Ighr,iuo rod X
protector This rod conveys the electricity out of the
atmosphere around leaves vacant. there
attraction for the positive ami locates that winch it
collected in the ground in the positive state so that it
acts as "a repeiler aud consequently the lightning will
approach On this principle that the lightning
rod protector and this principle that the
which is the best conductor the least liable to be struck
With lightning When stream of electricity starts in
TO notion 1t is strong. positive and always approaches
HE negative principle which attracts ii, and
which is instantly pieces by Tire strong
positive rcpulsive principle and by this repulsion III"
nosphrc separated when the lightning passes through
t, and is left which together again aud
makes that noise called thunder 1t !. the rcpulsive
principle positive electricity that the
pieces; the principle that the winds
wind depend the quantity of oxygen in the atno~-
phere and what portions of the atmosphere it located
H. and when the oxygen d1cren portions Of the
mr. separated by notrogen and carbon hydrogen absent
Or nearly so, there will he strong wind without clouds
hen the air is positively elccted and oxygen and
arbon is strongly located in or near the surface of
,arth that oxygen becomes strongly electrified the
positive and upward in the air.
md it ends Il whirng motion, and pro-
iuces the uhirwind When the air is still and clear and
n. atmosphere dense and strongly electrified this whirl-
Wind is powerful and forms vacuum in the centre 80
hat wien passes over water the pressure of the a.oS-
there the surrounding surface viii drive the
,n,L ,f tho ,,sr ,b,,s ,,d form.