International Library of Technology · Scranton, International Textbook Co. · leaf 35
ential then devel-oped will be greater in proportion tothe number of contacts. Such an ar-rangement is called a voltaic pile.(See Fig. 909.) It is made by placing apair of disks of zinc (chemical symbol,Zyi) and copper (chemical symbol, Cic)in contact with one another, and thenlaying a piece of… … Fig. 909- 1470 PRINCIPLES OF flannel or blotting-paper. One end of such a pile wouldthen be terminated by a disk of copper and the other by adisk of zinc. The copper forms the positive electrode andthe zinc the negative electrode. By joining these twoelectrodes together with a conductor, a current…
Electrical engineering
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