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hydrogen atoms. The third type of linkage, the co-ordinate linkage, involves the sharing of two electrons but both are supplied by the same atom. The process of the formation of a co-ordinate linkage resembles both transference and sharing. Therefore the three modern processes are transference, sharing and combined transference and sharing. The comparison is striking indeed!
Further the division of molecules takes place through the instrumentality of two causes: internal and external, for says the author of Sarvärtha-siddhi;
द्वितयनिमित्तवशाद्विदारणं भेदः । The phenomenon of radio-activity, explained in pages 43 et seq and illustrated in Fig. 4, is an examples of the breaking of a molecule (a modern atom) due to internal causes which even the scientists have not been able to elucidate. We read in the Restless Universe', p. 238 : “We may cherish the opinion that there must ultimately be some inner reason for the fact that one atom lives only a few seconds and its apparently identical neighbour many years; but no one has yet succeeded in putting his finger on the cause."
The examples of breaking under external stresses are four : (1) Dissociation of molecules in solution.
“The modern dissociation theory supposes that when the salt (copper sulphate) is dissolved some or all of its molecules are dissociated into Cu...(copper) and SO." (sulphate) ions, which move freely in the liquid: the molecules in this condition are said to be ionised." 109
(2) Thermal ionisation or breaking under high temperatures. Read pages 8-9 and 11.
(3) Pressure ionisation or breaking under high pressures. The phenomenon was discovered by Dr. D.S. Kothari--a Jain physicist of world fame.
(4) Breaking under artificial bombardment. Read pages 42 et seq. Sanghāta has been defined as :
पृथग्भूतानामेकत्वापत्तिः संघातः । The union of separate entities is Sanghata the assemblage
309. A Text of Physics by R.S. Willows, p. 396.
