Cumming, Linnæus, b. 1843. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Van Nostrand · leaf 216
ch the cur-rent, according to our present notion, enters the electrolyteis called the anode1: it is the negative extremity of the decom-posing body, is where oxygen, chlorine, acids, etc., areevolved, and is against or opposite the positive electrode(platinode). The cathode2 is that surface at… … Fig. 125. For the purpose of distinguishing the substances which areset free at the electrodes, Faraday continues, I propose todistinguish such bodies by calling those anions3 which go tothe anode of the decomposing body, and those passing to thecathode, cations,4, and when I have occasion to speak…
Electricity
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