Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 849
at whichthe mercurj stops. Ifnow a difference of po-tential be established, byconnecting the poles ofa cell with the wires aand b, the surface-tensionis increased, the mercuryascends in the capillarytube, and in order tobring the meniscus backto its foriiier position thepressure on A must… … Fig. 7S7. in level of the two legs of the manometer is thus a measure of the increaseof the surface-tension, and therewith of the difference of potential. Lipp-mann found, by special experiments, that this increase is almost directlyproportional to the electromotive force, up to about 0-9 of a…
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