And, he kept referring to them as corpuscles.

他一直沿用微粒这个概念。

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Has anyone heard of corpuscles?

不，不是电子？

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PROFESSOR: Yeah, that's right. So, what we have here, cathode rays we now know are negatively charged particles. And, in fact, he named these negatively charged particles. Does anyone know what he named them? No, not electrons - very good guess. He named them corpuscles.

学生：负电，教授：是的,我们现在知道，阴极射线是带负电的粒子,实际上他还给这些,带负电的粒子去了一个名字,有谁知道叫什么吗？

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A little bit. Yeah, so it was later named corpuscles that these particles were, in fact, electrons, and that's what they are. J.J.

不过猜的很好,他叫它们，有人听说过corpuscles吗？

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