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Modern views of electricity (1889)

Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940 · London, New York, Macmillan and co. · leaf 102

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of polarization. The piece of cord accompanying each bead on itsjourney {i.e. the length between it and the next bead)represents the atomic charge, and is a perfectly con-stant quantity: the only variation permissible in it is CHAP. IV.] ELECTROLYTIC CONDUCTION. 83 that some kinds of atoms have… … Fig, 13.—Crude mechanical analogy, illustrating a few points in a circuit partlyelectrolytic. If the cord be taken to represent positive electricity,the beads on it may represent atoms of hydrogen, orother monad cation, travelling down stream to thecathode. Another cord representing negative…

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