 | William Mullinger Higgins - 1838 - 532 pages
...using powerful charges : " but when I considered, " he says, " that the decomposition must depend upon duly proportioning the strength of the charge of electricity...communication, the decomposition of water might be effected by smaller machines, and with less powerful excitation than have hitherto been used for this... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1844 - 512 pages
...the transmission of sparks instead of shocks. He considered that the decomposition must depend upon duly proportioning the strength of the charge of Electricity...communication, depends on the extent of that surface, he therefore expected that by reducing the surface of communication the decomposition might be effected... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 876 pages
...Electricity. Perceiving, with his accustomed sagacity and penetration, that the decomposition would depend on duly proportioning the strength of the charge...communication depends on the extent of that surface, he conceived that by reducing the surface of communication, the decomposition of water might be effected... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1855 - 566 pages
...the transmission of sparks instead of shocks. He considered that the decomposition must depend upon duly proportioning the strength of the charge of Electricity...communication depends on the extent of that surface, he therefore expected that by reducing the surface of communication the decomposition might be effected... | |
 | 1922 - 734 pages
...He concluded that the decomposition must depend upon duly proportioning the strength of the charge to the quantity of water, and that the quantity exposed...communication depends on the extent of that surface. He observes : " Having procured a small wire of fine gold, and given to it as fine a point as I could,... | |
 | 1922 - 736 pages
...He concluded that the decomposition must depend upon duly proportioning the strength of the charge to the quantity of water, and that the quantity exposed...communication depends on the extent of that surface. He observes : " Having procured a small wire of fine gold, and given to it as fine a point as I could,... | |
 | 576 pages
...the pile of Volta decomposes water, and produces other effects of oxidation and de-oxidation of the bodies exposed to its action, I have been at some...communication, the decomposition of water might be effected by smaller machines, and with less powerful excitation than have hitherto been used for that... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1801 - 572 pages
...by common electricity. It has been thought necessary to employ powerful machines, and- large Ley den jars, for the decomposition of water; but, when I...communication, the decomposition of water might be effected by smaller machines, and with less powerful excitation, than have hitherto been used for that... | |
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I considered that the decomposition must depend on duly proportioning the strength of the charge of electricity to the quantity of water, and that the quantity exposed to its action at the surface of communication depends on the extent of that surface,... 
