 | 578 pages
...right proportions unite into water when they are made to combine, could be thrown into the condition of a current, it would exactly equal the current required for the separation of that grain of wafer into its elements again. 856. This view of the subject gives an almost overwhelming idea of the... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1870 - 552 pages
...right proportions unite into water when they are made to combine, could be thrown into the condition of a current, it would exactly equal the current required for the separation of that grain into its elements again." — Experimental Researches, 7th series. He then proceeds to show how enormous... | |
 | Medicine - 1910 - 752 pages
...made to combine, could be thrown into the condition of a current it would exactly equal the amount of current required for the separation of that grain of water into its elements again." This passage, as Professor SP Thompson points out, contains the germ of Sir. William Thomson's thermodynamic... | |
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... if the electrical power which holds the elements of a grain of water in combination, or which makes a grain of oxygen and hydrogen in the right proportions unite into water when they are made to combine, could be thrown into the condition of a current,... 
