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Repulsive force   /ripˈəlsɪv fɔrs/   Listen
Repulsive force

noun
1.
The force by which bodies repel one another.  Synonym: repulsion.






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"Repulsive force" Quotes from Famous Books



... those who possessed the secret of the Apergy [1] had never dreamed of applying it in the manner I proposed. It had seemed to them little more than a curious secret of nature, perhaps hardly so much, since the existence of a repulsive force in the atomic sphere had been long suspected and of late certainly ascertained, and its preponderance is held to be the characteristic of the gaseous as distinguished from the liquid or solid state of matter. Till lately, no means of generating ...
— Across the Zodiac • Percy Greg



Words linked to "Repulsive force" :   force, repulsive, attraction



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