The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 89
om anyother cause, there is a resistance to be overcome; the electricity requiringintensity or power to force its way through , but the amount of metal de-posited, depends wholly upon the quantity of the battery, and not upon theintensity. Intensity is produced by arranging two or more pairs of… … other substances, forming compounds, capable of being dissolved, and held insolution by acids and certain alkalies; thus, tor example:—When pure silveris put into pure nitric acid and heated, the metal is rapidly dissolved, formingthe nitrate of the oxide of silver, or, as commonly designated, the…
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