Electricity simplified. The practice and theory of electricity .. (1891)
Sloane, T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor), 1851-1940 · New York, N. W. Henley & co. · leaf 73
the potentialdifference passes a certain point, absolutely fixed forwater as well as for other compounds, but differingfor each specific decomposition more or less, it actsas an electrolyte, and conducts electrolytically only;it ceases to act as a common conductcr. The vol- 72 ELECTRICITY… … Fig. 12.—Decomposition op Water by the Et.ectr to Current. under pressure. The most enormous pressures canthus be developed by the silent and unseen agency ofthe current. Two common gravity cells such as usedin a telegraph office could burst a cannon shell.The decomposition is called electrolysis,…
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