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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: the development of a quantity of electric force which, if applied in
a proper form, would kill a rat, and no man would like to bear it.
In his subsequent researches 'On the absolute Quantity of
Electricity associated with the Particles or Atoms of matter,'
he endeavours to give an idea of the amount of electrical force
involved in the decomposition of a single grain of water. He is
almost afraid to mention it, for he estimates it at 800,000
discharges of his large Leyden battery. This, if concentrated in a
single discharge, would be equal to a very great flash of lightning;
while the chemical action of a single grain of water on four grains
of zinc would yield electricity equal in quantity to a powerful
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