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 255
ed of a metal united either toan element such as CI, Br, S, or to a compound radical such asSO4, NO3, . . . &c. The primary decomposition which takes placeunder the action of the current appears always to consist in theseparation of the metal from the simple or compound radicalwith which it was… … Fig. 141. 154] ELECTROLYSIS 233 Thus if we use as electrodes two platinum plates, and immei^sethem in solution of sulphate of copper, copper is deposited on thenegative electrode, with its characteristic colour, while at thepositive electrode oxygen is given off in the form of gas, andsulphuric…
Electricity · Magnetism
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