“[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.”
Quote by Francis William Aston
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Francis William Aston
Francis William Aston was a British chemist renowned for his contributions to mass spectrometry. He won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for inventing the mass spectrometer and using it to study isotopes. Aston's research had a profound impact on the development of chemistry and physics. more
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