 | Tim Fulford - 2002 - 278 pages
...effervescence at the upper surface; at the lower, or negative surface, there was no liberation of elastic fluid; but small globules having a high metallic lustre,...characters to quicksilver, appeared, some of which burnt with explosion and bright flame, as soon as they were formed, and others remained, and were merely... | |
 | Rom Harré - 2002 - 226 pages
...electrification ... at the lower or negative surface, there was no liberation of elastic fluid [gas] but small globules, having a high metallic lustre,...and being precisely similar in visible characters to quick silver, appeared, some of which burnt with explosive and bright flame, as soon as they were formed,... | |
 | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - 2002 - 480 pages
...effervescence at the upper surface; at the lower or negative surface, there was no liberation of elastic fluid; but small globules having a high metallic lustre,...characters to quicksilver, appeared, some of which burnt with explosion and bright flame, as soon as they were formed, and others remained, and were merely... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 476 pages
...effervescence at the upper surface ; at the lower, or negative surface, there was no liberation of elastic fluid; but small globules having a high metallic lustre,...characters to quicksilver, appeared, some of which burnt with explosion and bright flame, as soon as they were formed, and others remained, and were merely... | |
 | American Electrochemical Society - 1906 - 446 pages
...effervescence at the upper surface; at the lower, or negative surface, there was no liberation of elastic fluid; but small globules having a high metallic lustre,...characters to quicksilver, appeared, some of which burnt with explosion and bright flame, as soon as they were formed, and others remained, and were merely... | |
 | 1808 - 420 pages
...effervescence at the upptr surface; at the lower, or negative surface, there Was no liberation of elastic fluid ; but small globules having a high metallic...characters to quicksilver, appeared, some of which burnt with explosion and bright flame, as soon as they were formed, and others remained, and were merely... | |
 | 1809 - 546 pages
...to fuse at both its points of electrization,. and small globules having a high metalic lustre, and precisely similar in visible characters' to quicksilver,...some of which burst with explosion and bright flame. These globules are the basis of potash That alkali beingcomposed of this peculiar base and oxygen only;... | |
 | A.W. Ward - 1967 - 484 pages
...occasion l \ ' Davy sent an electric current through pieces of potash and soda ; the solids melted, and 'small globules, having a high metallic lustre, and...similar in visible characters to quicksilver, appeared.' By burning the metal-like globules, Davy obtained potash and soda. Making his experiments quantitative,... | |
 | Institution of Electrical Engineers - 1899 - 1170 pages
...effervescence at the upper " surface ; at the lower, or negative, surface there was no liberation " of elastic fluid ; but small globules having a high metallic...lustre, '• and being precisely similar in visible character to quicksilver, '• appeared, some of which burnt with explosion and bright flame, " as... | |
 | 1845 - 794 pages
...effervescence at the upper surface ; at the lower or negative surface there was no liberation of elastic fluid, but small globules, having a high metallic lustre, and being precisely similar in risible characters to quicksilver, appeared, some of which burst with explosion and bright flame, as... | |
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Under these circumstances, a vivid action was soon observed to take place. The potash began to fuse at both its points of electrization. There was a violent effervescence at the upper surface : at the lower or negative surface, there was no liberation... 
