The practical metal-worker's assistant : containing the arts of working all metals and alloys, forging of iron and steel, hardening and tempering, melting and mixing, casting and founding, works in sheet metal, the processes dependent on the ductility of the metals, soldering, and the most improved processes, and tools employed by metal-workers, with the application of the art of electro-metallurgy to manufacturing processes : collected from original sources, and from the works of Holtzapffel, Bergeron, Leupold, Plumier, Napier, and others ... (1851)
Byrne, Oliver · Philadelphia : H.C. Baird · leaf 394
e copper and zinc, with AMALGAMATION OF ZINC PLATES. 389 the acid in the first vessel, constitutes a battery of one pair. Thesecond vessel with acid, in which the wires are placed, is termed thedecomposition cell. Fig. 497. When zinc and copper, placed in dilute suphuric acid,are brought into… … Fig. 499. Or they may be connected by putting the wires into aliquid, such as acid and water, &c. Best kind of Zinc.—The zinc used for the battery should bemilled or rolled zinc, not thinner than ^th of an inch, otherwise thewaste will be very great; for amalgamated zinc, when it becomesthin,…
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