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. Science - Page 161edited by - 1924Full view - About this book
| Michael Faraday - 1839 - 614 pages
...decomposition, is subject to doubt. In place of the term pole, I propose using that of Electrode*, and I mean thereby that substance, or rather surface,...current enters and leaves a decomposing body, are most important places of action, and require to be distinguished apart from the poles, with which they... | |
| 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 rather surface,...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
...electro-chemical decomposition, is subject to doubt. - In place of the term pole, I propose using electrode*, and I mean thereby that substance, or rather surface,...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
...electro-chemical decomposition, is subject to doubt. - In place of the term pole, I propose using electrode*, and I mean thereby that substance, or rather surface,...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 - 646 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
...subject 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...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 - 116 pages
...decomposition, is subject to doubt. In place of the term pole, I propose using that of electrode,* and I mean thereby that substance, or rather surface,...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
...electrolyzed." . . . "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...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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