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" ... the results prove that the quantity of electricity which, being naturally associated with the particles of matter, gives them their combining power, is able, when thrown into a current, to separate those particles from their state of combination;... "
The Annals of Electricity Magnetism and Chemistry and Guardian of ... - Page 363
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 3

1835 - 566 pages
...equally definite and constant quantity of water or other matter is decomposed; and he concludes also, that the electricity which decomposes, and that which...decomposition of, a certain quantity of matter, are alike. ' The harmony,' he observes, ' which this theory of the definite evolution and the equivalent de finite...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 3

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 pages
...equally definite and constant quantity of water or other mutter is decomposed; and he concludes also, that the electricity which decomposes, and that which...decomposition of, a certain quantity of matter, are alike. ' The harmony,' he observes, * whkm this theory of the definite evolution and the equivalent definite...
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Series 1-14 [Phil. trans., 1831-38] 1839

Michael Faraday - 1839 - 614 pages
...electricity as developed in the preceding parts of the present paper, the results prove that the quautity of electricity which, being naturally associated with...evolved by the decomposition of, a certain quantity of mutter, are alike. 869. The harmony which this theory of the definite evolution and the equivalent...
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The Bible class magazine [ed. by C.H. Bateman]., Volumes 11-12

National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pages
...a galvanic current would be required to decompose it. He thus expresses the law of electricity : " The electricity which decomposes, and that which is...decomposition of a certain quantity of matter are alike. The equivalent weights of bodies are those quantities of them which contain equal quantities of electricity,...
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The Poetry of Science: Or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature

Robert Hunt - 1849 - 538 pages
...Experimental Researches on Electricity. This philosopher has shown, by the most conclusive experiments, "that the electricity which decomposes, and that which...decomposition of, a certain quantity of matter, are alike. What an enormous quantity of electricity, therefore, is required for the decomposition of a single...
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Lectures on Electricity: Comprising Galvanism, Magnetism, Electro-magnetism ...

Henry M. Noad - 1849 - 534 pages
...substance; thus rendering the proof complete, (bearing in mind the definite relations of Electricity,) that the Electricity which decomposes, and that which...decomposition of a certain quantity of matter, are alike. (344.) Secondary Results: — In investigating the action of the voltaic current on chemical compounds,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 21

1849 - 742 pages
...philosopher luis shown, by the most conclusive experiments, " that the electricity which decomposeз, and that which is evolved by the decomposition of, a certain quantity of matter, are alike. What an enormous quantity of electricity, therefore, is required for the decomposition of a single...
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The North British review

1850 - 654 pages
...through water will decompose exactly one equivalent of that fluid. The law has been thus expressed :—The electricity which decomposes, and that which...evolved by the decomposition of a certain quantity of water, are alike. The equivalent weights of bodies are those quantities of them which contain equal...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 20

1850 - 604 pages
...through water will decompose exactly one equivalent of that fluid. The law has been thus expressed : — The electricity which decomposes, and that which is...evolved by the decomposition of a certain quantity of water, are alike. The equivalent weights of bodies are those quantities of them which contain equal...
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Elementary Physics: An Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy

Robert Hunt - 1851 - 502 pages
...amount necessary to break up their chemical affinity ; the law being most satisfactorily established, that the electricity which decomposes, and that which...decomposition of, a certain quantity of matter, are alike. — " One grain of water, acidulated to facilitate conduction, will require an electric current to...
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