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 186
d portable, and tofacilitate filling in and removing the acid, a further early devicewas Cruickshanks troiujli battery (Fig. 99), consisting of a numberof double plates of zinc and copper cemented into grooves cut inthe opposite sides of a wooden trough so as to divide the troughinto a number of… … Fig. 99. whatever form it is constructed the electromotive force falls rapidlywhen the circuit is closed. 108. Use of Amalgamated Zinc.—If ordinary commercialzinc is used in the construction of a voltaic cell, it dissolves in theacid even when the circuit is not closed. But pvire zinc, or…
Electricity · Magnetism
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