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 404
laced within the zinc, so that the platinumin it may be connected with the zinc of the neighboring pair, as re-presented in Fig. 511. Fig. 511. zzz, are the zinc plates of the form of Figure 510.aaa. Porous cells filled with nitric acid. BATTERY OF EIGHT CELLS. 399 ccc, Plates of platinum united to… … It will be seen that by this means any number of pairs maybe easily arranged. Care, however, must be taken, when fitting upsuch an arrangement, that the platinum be kept closely connectedwith the zinc by a large surface, otherwise the platinum will be fusedat the connections. A flat piece of wood,…
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