Citations:moleculæ

Noun: plural of

 * 1812, J. M. Haussman, in Emporium of Arts and Sciences, Joseph Delaplaine; Volume I, №. 4, page #261:
 * A mere suspension of the integrant oily moleculæ, which would take place rather in the diluted ley than in the same ley more concentrated, is equally difficult to be explained.
 * 1815, Olinthus Gregory, A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive; Volume II, page #62:
 * This eminent elasticity of caloric tends continually to produce expansion ; on the other hand, this fluid, by a particular destination of nature, is more or less disseminated between the moleculæ of all bodies, in such sort that we may say with M. Lavoisier that even in the solid state these moleculæ do not touch, but, as it were, swim in the caloric at a certain distance from each other. There must, therefore, be a perpetual contest between the expansive force of caloric which tends to disseminate the moleculæ, and the cohesive attraction of the moleculæ which tends to join them together.
 * 1861, A History of Infusoria, Whittaker and Co.; fourth edition, page #338:
 * They are of different sizes, but chiefly characterized by being much larger than the moleculæ, few in number, of a circular, elliptical, elongated, subround, or irregular shape, with thick dark edges, apparently produced by obstruction to the passage of light,—colourless, or of a yellowish‐green tint. When large, and with no other granular matters present but the moleculæ, they form a striking feature in the interior of Amœba, Vorticella, Oxytricha, Paramecium Aurelia, &c. ; but at times they are so insignificant in size as to be undistinguishable from the moleculæ, even if present at all.
 * 1909, Wilhelm Bousset, The Faith of a Modern Protestant, Charles Scribner’s Sons; Chapter I, page #9:
 * And supposing we succeeded in expressing the characteristics of the elements in a definite arithmetical scheme according to the weight, number, and order of the atoms and moleculæ, there would still remain the question of why it was just this scheme and no other.