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Elements of chemical physics (1860)

Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 448

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by means of an apparatus de-scribed by Professor Silliman, Jr.,* andrepresented in Pig. 339. It is made bycementing the open mouth of a porousearthen-ware cell (such as are used in agalvanic battery) to the mouth of a glassfunnel, and then lengthening the spout byattaching to it a long glass tube… … * Sillimans Principles of Philosophy, p. 222. 424 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. porous cell a bell-glass filled with hydrogen, there will be animmediate rush of air from the tube through the water, becausethe hydrogen diffuses into the cell nearly four times as rapidly asthe air passes out; but upon removing…

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