 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 566 pages
...definite and constant quantity of water or other matter is decomposed; and he concludes also, that the electricity which decomposes, and that which is evolved...decomposition of, a certain quantity of matter, are alike. ' The harmony,' he observes, ' which this theory of the definite evolution and the equivalent de finite... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 pages
...definite and constant quantity of water or other mutter is decomposed; and he concludes also, that the electricity which decomposes, and that which is evolved...decomposition of, a certain quantity of matter, are alike. ' The harmony,' he observes, * whkm this theory of the definite evolution and the equivalent definite... | |
 | 1835 - 588 pages
...definite and constant quantity of water or other matter is decomposed; and he coneludes also, that the electricity which decomposes, and that which is evolved...decomposition of, a certain quantity of matter, are alike. • The harmony,' he observes, • which thi. theory of the definite evolution and the equivalent definite... | |
 | Michael Faraday - Electricity - 1839 - 614 pages
...current, to separate those particles from their state of combination ; or, in other words, that the electricity which decomposes, and that which is evolved by the decomposition of, a certain quantity of mutter, are alike. 869. The harmony which this theory of the definite evolution and the equivalent... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pages
...galvanic current would be required to decompose it. He thus expresses the law of electricity : " The electricity which decomposes, and that which is evolved...decomposition of a certain quantity of matter are alike. The equivalent weights of bodies are those quantities of them which contain equal quantities of electricity,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...philosopher luis shown, by the most conclusive experiments, " that the electricity which decomposeз, and that which is evolved by the decomposition of,...therefore, is required for the decomposition of a single ïïrain of water ! Vv:c have already seen that it must be in quantity sufficient to sustain a platinum... | |
 | Henry M. Noad - Electric power - 1849 - 534 pages
...thus rendering the proof complete, (bearing in mind the definite relations of Electricity,) that the Electricity which decomposes, and that which is evolved...decomposition of a certain quantity of matter, are alike. (344.) Secondary Results: — In investigating the action of the voltaic current on chemical compounds,... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...water will decompose exactly one equivalent of that fluid. The law has been thus expressed : — The electricity which decomposes, and that which is evolved by the decomposition of a certain quantity of water, are alike. The equivalent weights of bodies are those quantities of them which contain equal... | |
 | English literature - 1850 - 662 pages
...water will decompose exactly one equivalent of that fluid. The law has been thus expressed : — The electricity which decomposes, and that which is evolved by the decomposition of a certain quantity of water, are alike. The equivalent weights of bodies are those quantities of them which contain equal... | |
 | Robert Hunt - Physics - 1851 - 502 pages
...necessary to break up their chemical affinity ; the law being most satisfactorily established, that the electricity which decomposes, and that which is evolved...decomposition of, a certain quantity of matter, are alike. — " One grain of water, acidulated to facilitate conduction, will require an electric current to... | |
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... the electricity which decomposes, and that which is evolved by the decomposition of a certain quantity of matter, are alike. 
