Minutes of proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution (1858)
Great Britain. Army. Royal Artillery Institution · Woolwich, Eng., : The Institution · leaf 226
red. Charcoal dust, pulverised in a mill, and afterwards mixed with lime-wash and dried in a stove, is then rammed down to a thickness of six or eight inches. This preparation prevents the charcoal from too rapidly turning into graphite under the action of the current and becoming a conductor. An… … distance of about a quarter- of -an -inch with the same mixture of charcoal and lime. The mould is then carefully withdrawn, and the electrodes introduced at a minimum distance from one another of about a quarter-of-an-inch, and the charge is placed in the furnace. For aluminium bronze the charge…
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