Cyclopedia of applied electricity : a general reference work on direct-current generators and motors, storage batteries, electrochemistry, welding, electric wiring, meters, electric lighting, electric railways, power stations, switchboards, power transmission, alternating-current machinery, telegraphy, etc. (1916)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 195
emical element, the liquid is decomposed. Thesalts and acids in the liquid are thus decomposed and metal platesby which the current is led into and out of the liquid are also affected.This process is called electrolysis, that is, breaking up of chemicalcomposites by electric currents. It is at once… … CtNAMO UNDER6R0UND £IP£Fig. 46. Diagram of Electrolytic Effects of Street Railway Return Currents be injured by such chemical disintegration. In cities and townswhere there are large electric currents which use the earth as areturn path, these effects, if improper conditions are allowed toexist,…
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