EXCELLENT DETERMINATIONS of the electrical conductivity of liquid mercury were made by Matthiessen, Siemens and others in the early 1860's; it is a measure of the vitality of this branch of science that the explanation of the magnitude of this familiar physical constant is still controversial; until five years ago, we could not even explain its order of magnitude.
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