a close copy of indium, and the arrangement of
types A and B in the funnels is identical. In the middle rings of both A
and B a triplet is substituted for a unit at the centre of the larger
globe. In the lowest body of type A the "cigar" has vanished, and is
represented by a seven-atomed crystalline form.
ANTIMONY: Segment A 128 atoms
Segment B 113 atoms
3 funnels of 2 A and 1 B ([256 + 113]3) 1107
3 " " 2 B and 1 A ([226 + 128]3) 1056
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Total 2163
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Atomic weight 119.34
Number weight 120.16
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VII.
BORON (Plate III, 4, and Plate XI, 1).
[Illustration]
The disintegration of boron is very simple: the funnels are set free and
assume the spherical form, showing a central "cigar" and four globes each
containing two triplets. The central globe is also set free with its four
quintets, and breaks at once in two. On the meta level the "cigar" breaks
up as usual, and the triplets separate. On the hyper level, the "cigar"
follows its usual course, and the triplets become duads and units. The
globe forms two quintets on the meta level, and these are resolved into
triplets and duads.
SCANDIUM (Plate XI, 2).
In funnel A the "cigar" and the ovoids behave as in boron, but the
"balloon," _a_ 110 (XI, 4), escapes from the funnel as it changes to a
sphere, and holds together on the proto level; on the meta, it yields six
globes each containing seven duads, and these are all set free as duads on
the hyper level; the ovoid is also set free on the meta level becoming a
sphere, and on the hyper level liberates its contained bodies, as two
triplets, two quartets and two sextets.
In funnel B there is a quintet, that behaves like those in the globe of
boron, on escaping from the funnel, in which the bodies remain on the proto
level, with the exception of _b_ 63, which escapes. On the meta level, _c_
(Plate XI, 4), _c_ assumes a tetrahedral form with six atoms at each point,
and these hold together as sextets on the hyper level. At the meta stage,
_b_ (Plate XI, 4 _b_) sets free seven nine-atomed bodies, which become free
triplets on the hyper. The central globe shows a cross at its centre, with
the four quintets whirling round it, on the proto level.
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