 | Michael Faraday - 1839 - 614 páginas
...fraction of that which is active do we obtain and employ in our voltaic batteries ! Zinc and platiua wires, one eighteenth of an inch in diameter and about...not sensibly sour to the tongue, or scarcely to our most delicate test papers, will evolve more electricity in one twentieth of a minute (860.) than any... | |
 | 1842 - 638 páginas
...weight by the authority of Dr. Faraday, which instructs us that " Zinc and platina wires, one-eighteenth of an inch in diameter and about half an inch long,...not sensibly sour to the tongue, or scarcely to our most delicate testpapers, will evolve more electricity in one-twentieth of a minute than any man would... | |
 | John Rutherford Russell - 1844 - 116 páginas
...the actual fact. Again, what would common sense say to this ? " Zinc and platina wires oneeighteenth of an inch in diameter, and about half an inch long,...dipped into dilute sulphuric acid, so weak, that it is uot sensibly sour to the tongue, or scarcely to our most delicate test-papers, will evolve more electricity... | |
 | 1848 - 424 páginas
...bosoms. ELECTRICITY DEVELOPED. THE slegant and correct experimentalist. Faraday, has shown that zins and platinum wires, one eighteenth of an inch in diameter,...so weak that it is not sensibly sour to the tongue, will evolve more eltctricity in one-twentieth of a minute than is given by thirty tirnsof a large and... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1849 - 538 páginas
...The same elegant and correct experimentalist has shown that zinc and platinum wires, one-eighteenth of an inch in diameter, and about half an inch long,...so weak that it is not sensibly sour to the tongue, will evolve more electricity in one-twentieth of a minute than is given by thirty turns of a large... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 páginas
...force. " The same elegant and correct experimentalist has shown that zinc and platinum wires, l-18th orrels they are called in America), driven chequered...color diagonally. Highly polished steel chains take will evolve more electricity in l-20th of a minute than is given by thirty turns of a large and powerful... | |
 | 1850 - 604 páginas
...force. " The same elegant and correct experimentalist has shown that zinc and platinum wires, l-18th of an inch in diameter, and about half an inch long,...so weak that it is not sensibly sour to the tongue, will evolve more electricity in l-20th of a minute than is given by thirty turns of a large and powerful... | |
 | 1850 - 662 páginas
...force. " The same elegant and correct experimentalist has shown that zinc and platinum wires, l-18th of an inch in diameter, and about half an inch long,...so weak that it is not sensibly sour to the tongue, will evolve more electricity in l-20th of a minute than is given by thirty turns of a large and powerful... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1850 - 408 páginas
...The samo elegant and correct experimentalist has $hown that £Íne and platinum wires, one-eighteenth of an inch in diameter, and about half an inch long» dipped into dilute sulphuric aelcl, so weak that it is not sensibly sour to the tongue, mil evolve more electricity in one-twentieth... | |
 | Frederick Collier Bakewell - 1853 - 230 páginas
...electricity sufficient to decompose a single grain of water. Thus, " zinc and platinum wires one-eighteenth of an inch in diameter and about half an inch long,...not sensibly sour to the tongue or scarcely to our most delicate test-papers, will evolve more electricity in one-twentieth of a minute than any man would... | |
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... of a minute than any man would willingly allow to pass through his body at once. The chemical action of a grain of water upon four grains of zinc can evolve electricity equal in quantity to that of a powerful thunderstorm! 
