Well before that, however, there was news of an electrical matter.
Albrecht von Haller, professor of anatomy and surgery at Göttingen, discussed "the nervous fluid" and conjectured as to whether "electrical matter" and "animal spirits" were the same.
It will seek definitive data on whether the Universe retains any large quantities of anti-matter - matter with an alternate electrical charge to normal matter and which theorists suspect was created in equal amounts in the Big Bang but then destroyed.
During the 1880s and '90s scientists searched cathode rays for the carrier of the electrical properties in matter.
More significantly, Faraday's work was the first to imply the electrical nature of matter and the existence of subatomic particles and a fundamental unit of charge.
Open image in new window Fig. 4 Variations of electrical conductivity, suspended matter, BOD5, and COD.
Electrical conductivity, organic matter content, NO3 N, available P, cation exchange capacity and major cations were analysed for soil.
Removal efficiencies were found to be negatively correlated with soil electrical conductivity, organic matter content, pH and total phosphorus content.
The following nine soil properties were evaluated for each sample: Ca, K, Mg, Na, organic C, organic matter, electrical conductivity, sodium absorption ratio, and pH.
