A natural philosophy : embracing the most recent discoveries in the various branches of physics, and exhibiting the application of scientific principles in everyday life .. (1899)
Quackenbos, G. P. (George Payn), 1826-1881 · New York, Cincinnati [etc.], American book company · leaf 359
854 ELECTRO-MAGNETISM. pole, and C d with the positive, an ascending current will be formed, and themagnet will revolve in the opposite direction. Mercury is used in this experiment, because, being a liquid, it allows themagnet to move through it, while at the same time, being a conductor, it Fig.… … completes the circuit, and carries off the magnetic in-fluence from the south pole immersed in it. Were itnot for this, the south pole, by its tendency to movein the opposite direction to the north, would keep themagnet stationary. 907. Fig. 318 illustrates the revolution of a con«ducting wire…
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