Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied, for the use of colleges and schools (1898)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887 · London, Longmans, Green · leaf 1072
hen a current of an ampere is passing through it. A coulomb of electricity in traversing an electrolyte decomposes a weight of the body expressed by 0-00001038 of its chemical equivalent. The electric energy expended when a coulomb of electricity falls in potential by one volt is a called a Joule.… … The practical standards consist of circular or square sheets of tinfoil with projecting tongues, a and a ' (fig. 1031), fastened on thin sheets of mica. Be¬ tween each such coated sheet is placed an uncoated one of mica, the two sets of tongues being severally connected with each other, and thus…
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