Elementary treatise on electricity and magnetism : (1905)
Foster, G. C. (George Carey), 1835-1919, Joubert, J. (Jules François), 1834-1910, Porter, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1863-1939 · London ; New York ; Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 534
udden by the spark which ^U passes between the hammer ^ and the anvil. In order to make the break more rapid, Foucault vised a platinum point vibrating vertically up and down and dipping into mercury. The spark is considerably reduced by covering the mercioxy with a layer of alcohol. The vibrating… … Fig. 348. 440] FIZEAUS CONDENSEK 513 battery through an electrolytic cell consisting of weak acid inwhich the electrodes are a lead plate (kathode) and a platinum-wire (anode), the latter being encased in a glass tube with theexception of a few millimetres at the end, a torrent of densesparks…
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