Electricity for everybody; its nature and uses explained (1895)
Atkinson, Philip · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 74
ey are made ofvarious materials, but zinc is almost invariably usedfor the generating electrode, and carbon is more gen-erally used for the conducting electrode than any othersubstance, copper being the next material in most com-mon use for this electrode; silver, platinum, and mer-cury are also… … Fig. 16. ELECTRIC BATTERIES. 59 sulphuric acids diluted with water. The battery fluidcontained in a cell may be of one kind only, or of twokinds partly separated by a porous cup, or in some otherway, as by gravity, wThen one fluid is lighter than theother. This gives rise to the two kinds of cells,…
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