 In place of the term pole, I propose using that of Electrode*, and I mean thereby that substance, or rather surface, whether of air, water, metal, or any other body, which bounds the extent of the decomposing matter in the direction of the electric current.  Series 1-14 [Phil. trans., 1831-38] 1839 - Page 196by Michael Faraday - 1839Full view - About this book
 | William Sturgeon - 1837 - 592 pages
...deliberately considered the subject with two friends, and with their assistance and concurrence in framing them, I purpose henceforward using certain other terms,...current. 663. The surfaces at which, according to the common phraseology, the electric current enters and leaves a decomposing body, are most important... | |
 | John Pringle Nichol - 1860 - 942 pages
...geological speculation. Electrode. Synonymous with the term pule in galvanic arrangements : it is the substance, or rather surface, whether of air, water,...decomposing matter in the direction of the electric current. See ANODE, AXION, &c. Electro-Dynamic«. This term is applied to that branch of Electric Science which... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1869 - 722 pages
...electro-chemical decomposition, is subject to doubt. • In place of the term pole, I propose using electrode*, and I mean thereby that substance, or...decomposing matter in the direction of the electric current. The surfaces at which, according to common phraseology, the electric current enters and leaves a decomposing... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1873 - 180 pages
...effected electro-chemical decomposition, is subject to doubt. - In place of the term pole, I propose using electrode*, and I mean thereby that substance, or...decomposing matter in the direction of the electric current. The surfaces at which, according to common phraseology, the electric current enters and leaves a decomposing... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1877 - 764 pages
...effected electro-chemical decomposition, is subject to doubt. - In place of the term pole, I propose using electrode*, and I mean thereby that substance, or...decomposing matter in the direction of the electric current. The surfaces at which, according to common phraseology, the electric current enters and leaves a decomposing... | |
 | Linnaeus Cumming - 1886 - 418 pages
...decomposed he called an electrolyte. We have already employed the term electrode,2 by which he means " that substance, or rather surface, whether of air,...matter in the direction of the electric current." It will be noticed that our use of the term for the plates of the battery is strictly in 1 fp<(icTpov... | |
 | Alexander Watt (F. R. S. A.) - 1887 - 644 pages
...tlXtrrpov and o Sot, a way, thereby signifying that substanve or surfave, whether of air, water, or metal, which bounds the extent of the decomposing matter, in the direction of the current. The conductors immersed in the liquids to be decomposed by the current are therefore termed,... | |
 | Park Benjamin - 1893 - 578 pages
...to doubt. In place of the term pole, I propose using that of electrode(fiXeKrpov and otfdj, a way), and I mean thereby that substance, or rather surface,...decomposing matter in the direction of the electric current. . . . The anode is ... that surface at which the electric current . enters; it is the negative extremity... | |
 | Michael Faraday, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch - 1899 - 114 pages
...substance ; but whether philosophers generally would also apply it to the surfaces of air and water, against which I have effected electrochemical decomposition,...decomposing matter in the direction of the electric current. The surfaces at which, according to common phraseology, the electric current enters and leaves a decomposing... | |
 | Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - 1906 - 610 pages
.... . . "In place of the term pole, I propose using that of Electrode (jj\etCTpov, and d.iSo, a way), and I mean thereby that substance, or rather surface,...metal, or any other body, which bounds the extent of rhe decomposing matter in the direction of the electric current." ..." If the magnetism of the earth... | |
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