. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. !'iu. 8.âMr. .T. linnvn's Arrangement for observiuf; the Volta Et?ect in difTcront fin MS by sir William Thomson's ilL'tliod of a bimetallic ring with an oleetritied needle hangini,' over it. In IftSl he observed a time change (decrease) of the Volta effect at a eojiper-zinc junction, and reckoned that at the first instant after cleaning the potential difference would
. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. !'iu. 8.âMr. .T. linnvn's Arrangement for observiuf; the Volta Et?ect in difTcront fin MS by sir William Thomson's ilL'tliod of a bimetallic ring with an oleetritied needle hangini,' over it. In IftSl he observed a time change (decrease) of the Volta effect at a eojiper-zinc junction, and reckoned that at the first instant after cleaning the potential difference would be as high as '0 Daniell, ' which,' he says, 'ngrecs with J. Thomscn's determination of the difference of the heats of <'onibustion of zinc and copper and oxygen.' He here gives a hint of holding i'apcr liad appeared in the Journal dc P/n/Kir/vr, ^lay 1880. Fig. 10 sufliiuently exhibits ^ii' WillianiV arrangement. In a ;eri])t art' described a few additional experi- 'ii'iits (it tliu same kind as tliose j)ublished in 1881 b\- (Schultze-Iiergc, in which a I'latinui:! plate is .soaked for a certain time in dry liydrogen or oxygen, and then "^('ilin the Volta condenser. The observation is made that merely soaking a plate in -as is tuore etl'eetive than electroplating it with the same gas with an of nvfilt. ' J. Brown: P/iil. Mag., August 1878, Feb. 18711, and JIarch 1881 ; see also Brit. â¢, Tnins. of Sects., 1881, and Electrician, vol. vii. p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (54th : 1884 : Montreal, Quebec). London : J. Murray
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