Cumming, Linnæus, b. 1843. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Van Nostrand · leaf 396
that junction in which thecurrent goes from bismuth to antimony is cooled, and theopposite junction heated • that is to say, the current cools Book IV.] Thermo- Electricity. 377 that junction which, when heated, gives a current in thedirection of the battery current. This is called the Peltier… … Fig. 242. A to C, it cools the junction. This cooling is best shown byarranging the cross so that C, D are over mercury cups, andthe cross rocking on two Ys at A and B, either C or D maydip into a cup, but not both at once. If a galvanometer beconnected with B and the mercury cup at Z>, and…
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