Elementary treatise on electricity and magnetism : founded on Joubert's "Traité élémentaire d'électricité" (1909)
Foster, G. Carey (George Carey), Porter, Alfred William, 1863-1939, Joubert, Jules François · London : Longmans · leaf 175
and zinc,each pair being separated from thenext by a round of cloth soakedwith acidulated water, as shownin section in Fig. 93, and in per-spective in Fig. 94. This arrange-ment is known as Voltas jnle. Acorresponding combination of pairs of metal plates in separatevessels of liquid is called a… … Fig. 9:{. 100] VOLTAS THEORY 153 100. Voltas Theory of Electrification by Contact.—In order to explain facts of the kind referred to in the last two para-graphs, Volta supposed that the surface of contact of two metals, ormore generally of any two differ-ent substances, is the seat of apeculiar…
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