y eachdrop, as it breaks from the continuous water above, and V thepotential of the inner coating of the jar bearing the receiver,the potential of the uninsulated water being taken as zero. Thepractical limit to the charges acquired is when one of themis so strong as to cause sparks to pass across… … mencing with no electricity except a feeble charge in one ofthe jars, only discoverable by a delicate electrometer, to see in 322 Ehdroplioric Apparatus, [xxiii. the course of a few minutes a somewhat rapid succession ofsparks pass in some part of the apparatus, or to see the dropsof water…
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