Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 349
difference between the quadrants. 292. Capillary Electrometer. — When the surface betweenmercury and sulphuric acid is elec-trified, or, more properly, polarized,the surface tension is considerablyaffected, apparently by the releaseof one of the ions at the surface. This phenomenon has been… … Fig. 214. CAPACITY. 339 C is a capillary tube connected on one side with a tube, M,filled with mercury, and on the other side with the tube S,containing dilute sulphuric acid. Platinum wires sealed intoMand S, and terminating in the mercury cups P and JV, serveas electrodes. On connecting P to the…
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