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Find the following matter in the passage and copy the missing word. It was Maxwell who ______ equations ______.

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Find the following matter in the passage and copy the missing word.

It was Maxwell who ______ equations ______.

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It was Maxwell who translated Faraday’s idea into a set of equations that are now called Maxwell’s equations. 

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Chapter 3.5: Great Scientists - ENGLISH WORKSHOP [Page 94]

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