An elementary book on electricity and magnetism and their applications (1919)
Jackson, Dugald C. (Dugald Caleb), 1865-1951, Jackson, John Price, b. 1868, Black, Newton Henry, b. 1874 · New York, The Macmillian Co · leaf 297
anode A tothe cathode B. Small bubbles of gas are seen torise from both electrodes, and the gas collects intube B twice as fast as in tube A. When tube Bis full, we open the switch and test the collectedgases. To test the gas in tube B, we open the stop-cock at the top and carefully apply a lighted… … Fig. 185. —Wateris broken up intooxygen ami hy-drogen. Thus wo see that water is decomposed byelectricity into its constituent elements, hydro-gen and oxygen. This process of decomposing a compound bymeans of an electric current is called electrolysis. ELECTROCHEMISTRY. STORAGE BATTERY 267 The…
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