TITANIUM: One carbon atom 216
4
c of 88 atoms 352
12
d of 14 " 168
Central
globe 128
——
Total
864
——
Atomic
weight 47.74
Number
weight 864/18 48.00
ZIRCONIUM (Plate XV, 3) has exactly the same outline
as titanium, the
carbon atom is similarly distributed, and the central
body is identical.
Only in 5 c and d do we find a difference
on comparing them with 4 c
and d. The c ovoid in zirconium shows
no less than fifteen secondary
globes within the five contained in the ovoid, and
these, in turn, contain
altogether sixty-nine smaller spheres, with two hundred
and twelve atoms
within them, arranged in pairs, triplets, quartets,
quintets, a sextet and
septets. Finally, the ovoids of the ring are
also made more elaborate,
showing thirty-six atoms instead of fourteen.
In this way the clever
builders have piled up in zirconium no less than 1624
atoms.
ZIRCONIUM: One Carbon atom 216
4
c of 212 atoms 848
12
d of 36 " 432
Central
globe 128
——
Total
1624
——
Atomic
weight 89.85
Number
weight 90.22
[Illustration: PLATE XVI.]
SILICON (Plate XVI, 1) is at the head of the group which corresponds to carbon on the opposite turn of the lemniscate. It has the usual eight funnels, containing four ovoids in a circle, and a truncated “cigar” but no central body of any kind. All the funnels are alike.
SILICON: 8 funnels of 65 atoms 520
Atomic
weight 28.18
Number
weight 520/18 28.88
GERMANIUM (Plate XVI, 2) shows the eight funnels,
containing each four
segments (XVI, 4), within which are three ovoids and
a “cigar.” In this
case the funnels radiate from a central globe, formed
of two intersecting
tetrahedra, with “cigars” at each point
enclosing a four-atomed globe.
GERMANIUM: 8 funnels of 156 atoms 1248
Central
globe 52
——
Total
1300
——
Atomic
weight 71.93
Number
weight 1300/18 72.22
TIN (Plate XVI, 3) repeats the funnel of germanium,
and the central globe
we met with in titanium, of five intersecting tetrahedra,
carrying twenty
“cigars”; the latter, however, omits the
eight-atomed centre of the globe
that was found in titanium, and hence has one hundred