The outlines of physics: an elementary text-book (1897)
Nichols, E. L. (Edward Leamington), 1854-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd. · leaf 321
e surface of the upper car-bon. This is the positive ter-minal, that from which thecurrent flows into the arc. Theend of the positive carbon iseaten away so as to form a con-cave region, called the crater, and it is the crater whichemits the most intense light. The negative carbon is… … Fig. 272. ELECTROLYSIS 307 CHAPTER XXXIELECTROLYSIS 274. The Law of Electrolysis. — The chemical effect ofthe electric current consists in breaking up liquids throughwhich it passes into two parts, the metal and the acid-radical with which this is combined to form a salt. Cop-per sulphate (CuSO^),…
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