The late Lord Kelvin, it appears, enriched scientific language with many words of his own coinage. Professor Thomson, in the Life of the' great . scientist, just published, says that to Lord Kelvin we owe the term "kinetic" energy (the counterpart of Rankine's "potential" energy); the expressions "permeability'' and "susceptibility" in the magnetisation of iron; the adjectives "aeolotropic," "circuital," and "positional" (a single adjective is used to avoid "a sea of troubles": "Thomson and Tait," vol. 1, page 370); and the phrase "ohmis resistance" for one of the factors of en-ergy-waste in a circuit traversed by an electric current. CHRONIC BHEUMATISM ! EFFECTUALLY CUBED. : No mattor how long you have suffered ,1 'from Eheumatkm; no matter what other remedies have failed, EHEUMO, if given ' .a fair trial, will effect a cure. Thousands ' of other sufferera have been permanently i cured by RHEUMO, when all 1 else had i •been tried in vain.. Many have spent 1 large sums of money at Kotoraa and other . thermal springs, but it was EHEUMO ithat eventually effected a cure. If you aro suffering from Bhoumatism, or from J Gout, Lumbago. Sciatica, or kindred comIplaints, give EHEUMO a fair trial. It ' has cured others and will cure you—and 'that • at- littlo cost. All chemists and Btarea»_2s. CcL and 4s. 6d,—Adyt. &'
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 775, 26 March 1910, Page 14
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213Page 14 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 775, 26 March 1910, Page 14
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