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The aggregates produced through the three processes may have any size, greater than, lesser than or equal to the sizes of their aggregating components. This may be perceptible or otherwise. This means that each of the processes has a capacity to produce perceptible as well as nonperceptible aggregates. However, if perceptible aggregation is desired, it is only the third way.
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4. The commentary does not illustrate the process. However, many current examples may be cited. For example, Hydrogen molecule + Chlorine moleculeChlorine) atoms 2 Hydrogen chloride molecules. This example indicates that when gaseous hydrogen and chlorine mdecules react, they first divide into more fine atoms which, then, combine to give perceptible hydrogen chloride molecule. Another example may be given where solid products are obtained:
Ammonia + Hydrogen Chloride- - Ammonium Chloride (solid) The gases are generally supposed to be invisible. The gaseous reactions, however, yield visible products. The non-perceptible may be similar or dis-similar. The case of visibilisation of similar aggregates may be exemplified by the following:
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Sulphur vapours This aphorism, thus, indicates that division or atomisation is an essential step for visibilisation of the formed aggregates. This is qualitatively in tune with the current theory of reaction mechanism.
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It must be pointed out that sense-perceptibility appears to be due to specific transformational nature or structural specificity of the aggregates.
6. It also appears that this aphorism deals with apparent atomic aggregates rather than ideal atomic ones which are normally invisible even upto the infinite atomic combinations including karmas etc.
7. The eye-perceptibility means not only the colour-perceptibility but also the perceptibility of the coloured and configurational object as they are inseparable substantively. There cannot be any mattergic entity without colour and shape etc.
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