Elementary treatise on electricity and magnetism (1903)
Foster, George Carey, 1835-1919, Joubert, Jules François, 1834-1910. Traité élémentaire d'électricité, Porter, Alfred William, 1863- joint author · London, New York, Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 174
and portable, and tofacilitate filling in and removing the acid, a further early devicewas Oruickshanks trough iattery (Fig. 99), consisting of a numberof double plates of zinc and copper cemented into grooves cut inthe opposite sides of a wooden trough so as to divide the troughinto a number of… … Fio. 99. whatever form it is constructed the electromotive force falls rapidlywhen the circuit is closed. 108. Use of Amalgamated Zinc.—If ordinary commercialzinc is used in the construction of a voltaic cell, it dissolves in theacid even when the circuit is not closed. But pure zinc, or commonzinc…
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