Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 450
which we shall suppose to be of copper, a Daniels batteryof two or three couples is usually employed. A couple of Daniels battery differs from one of Bunsen;s in thefollowing particulars. The carbon cylinder is replaced by one ofzinc, denoted by Z, in Fig. 291, and the zinc cylinder is replaced… … Fig. 2SH. placed at the bottom of the vessel. The porous vessel is filled withdilute sulphuric acid. When this battery is in action, water isdecomposed: the oxygen goes to the zinc, forming oxyde of zinc,which is dissolved by the sulphuric acid, giving sulphate of zinc.The hydrogen of the water…
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