Elementary lessons in electricity and magnetism (1906)
Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips), 1851-1916, Schwetzky, Otto H. L. [from old catalog] · Chicago, Thompson & Thomas · leaf 417
re, in 1881, improved the Plante accumulator by giving thetwo lead plates a preliminary coating of redhead (or minium).,When a current is passed through the cdll to charge it, the red-lead is peroxidised at the anode, and reduced,—first to a con-dition of lower oxide, then to the spongy metallic… … Fig. 156. with flat plates in the form shown in Fig. 156. In Sellonsand Volckmars accumulators the minium is packed into inter-stices in the lead plates. A secondary cell resembles a Leydenjar in that it can be charged and then discharged. Its time-rate of leakage is also similar. The residual…
Electricity · Magnetism
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