There is no substance better fitted, under ordinary circumstances, to be the indicating body in such an instrument than water ; for it is decomposed with facility when rendered a better conductor by the addition of acids or salts; its elements may in... Cyclopædic science simplified - Page 348by John Henry Pepper - 1877Full view - About this book
| William Sturgeon - 1837 - 592 pages
...instrument which should measure out the electricity passing through it, and which, being interposed in the course of the current used in any particular experiment,...effect, or as a positive measurer of this subtile agent. 706. There is no substance better fitted, under ordinary circumstances, to be the indicating body in... | |
| Henry Minchin Noad - 1844 - 512 pages
...which, being interposed in the course of the current used in any particular experiment, should plo serve at pleasure, either as a comparative standard...effect, or as a positive measurer of this subtile agent. Water, acidulated with sulphuric acid, was the electrolyte chosen ; and Fig. 144, exhibits ono of the... | |
| Henry Minchin Noad - 1855 - 574 pages
...instrument which should measure out the Electricity passing through it, and which, being interposed in the course of. the current used in any particular...effect, or as a positive measurer of this subtile agent. Water, acidulated with sulphuric acid, was the electrolyte chosen, and Fig. 201 exhibits one of the... | |
| Michael Faraday - 1839 - 634 pages
...instrument which should measure out the electricity passing through it, and which, being interposed in the course of the current used in any particular experiment,...effect, or as a positive measurer of this subtile agent. 706. There is no substance better fitted, under ordinary circumstances, to be the indicating body in... | |
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1883 - 516 pages
...the electricity passing through it, and which, being interposed in the course of the current used, should serve at pleasure either as a comparative standard of effect .or as a positive measure of the subtle agent.' § 706. . . . ' Water therefore, acidulated by sulphuric acid, is the... | |
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1883 - 780 pages
...the electricity passing through it, and which, being interposed in the course of the current used, should serve at pleasure either as a comparative standard of effect or as a positive measure of the subtle agent.' § 706. . . . ' Water therefore, acidulated by sulphuric acid, is the... | |
| Robert Angus Smith - 1883 - 500 pages
...the electricity passing through it, and which, being interposed in the course of the current used, should serve at pleasure either as a comparative standard of effect or as a positive measure of the subtle agent.' § 706. . . . ' Water therefore, acidulated by sulphuric acid, is the... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 766 pages
...quantity of electricity," and following this thought constructed an instrument which, "being interposed in the course of the current, used in any particular...or as a positive measurer of this subtile agent." Again, having repeated all his earlier experiments with the most varying conditions, he wrote "variations... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 768 pages
...quantity of electricity," and following this thought constructed an instrument which, "being interposed in the course of the current, used in any particular...or as a positive measurer of this subtile agent." Again, having repeated all his earlier experiments with the most varying conditions, he wrote "variations... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 764 pages
...quantity of electricity," and following this thought constructed an instrument which, "being interposed in the course of the current, used in any particular...or as a positive measurer of this subtile agent." Again, having repeated all his earlier experiments with the most varying conditions, he wrote "variations... | |
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