A manual of electricity, magnetism and meteorology (1844)
Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859, Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812-1882 · London Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans · leaf 382
hen the last particle ofoxygen, finding itself in contact with the hydrogen ofthe tube h, unites with an equivalent, and thus anequivalent of water is formed at the expense of anelement of hydrogen from one tube, and one of oxygenfrom another : and this goes on throughout the seriestill all the… … 346 VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY. BOOK III. composed in each cell of the gas battery, is exactly equalto that decomposed by its action. The platinization (326.) of the platinum, is for the purpose of increas-ing the points of contact, and obtaining the advantageof capillary attraction for wetting the…
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