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POLARITY IN MATTER
227 substances, and is called Isomerism, or formation of different wholes from the same parts,
The principle of polarity, therefore, aided by the subsidiary conditions of quantivalence, atomnity, and Isomerism, gives the clue to the construction of the inorganic world out of some seventy elementary substances. Of the substances thus formed, some are stable and some unstable. As a rule the simpler combinations are the most stable, and instability increases with complexity. Thus diamond, which is merely a crystal of pure carbon, is very hard and indestructible ; while dynamite or nitroglycerine, which is a very complex compound, explodes at a touch.
The universe consists of atoms which are endowed with polarity, and that as diminished temperature allows these atoms to come closer together and form compounds, inatter in all its forms is built up by the action of polar forces.
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