A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1898)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W. J. Johnston company · leaf 97
a slender rod anddips into a saturated solution of sal-ammoniac^NH4C1. The negative element consists of a plate of car-bon, C, Fig. in, placed in a porous cell, in whichis a mixture of black oxide of manganese andbroken gas-retort carbon, tightly packed aroundthe. carbon plate. By this means a… … Fig. in. The Leclanche Cell. This cell, though containing but a single fluid,belongs, in reality, to the class or type of double,fluid cells, being one in which the negative ele-ment is surrounded by an oxidizing substance,the black oxide of manganese, which replaces thenitric acid or copper…
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