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law of electrical action

Cavendish
"We shall again have to refer to Cavendish's investigations, and need only state that his experiments proved (515) conclusively, and in the best possible manner as far as the instruments at his disposal would allow, that the attraction or repulsion between two small charge bodies varies directly as the product of their charges, and inversely as the square of the distance between them, so that the law of electrical action is the same as Newton's law of gravitation, except that the stress between similarly charged bodies is repulsive, and that between dissimilarly charged bodies attractive." [from James Clerk Maxwell bio, page 262] [See Bjerknes Effect]

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