 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1892 - 626 pages
...free mercury throughout the paste preserves the basicity of the salt, and is of the utmost importance. Contact is made with the mercury by means of a platinum...contact with the other materials of the cell by being scaled into a glass tube. The ends of the wire project from the ends of the tube ; one end forms the... | |
 | Great Britain - Law - 1894 - 610 pages
...when the cork is pushed into the tube. Wash the cork thoroughly with warm water, and leave it to soak in water for some hours before use. Pass the zinc rod about 1 centimetre through the cork. TUoutact is made with the mercury by means of a platinum wire about No. 22 gange. This is protected... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1893 - 630 pages
...when the cork is pushed into the tube. Wash the cork thoroughly with warm water, and leave it to soak in water for some hours before use. Pass the zinc rod about one centimetre through the cork. Clean the glass tube and platinum wire carefully, then heat the exposed... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1887 - 606 pages
...The negative element consists in zinc which hat been purified by distillation. It rests on the paste. Contact is made with the mercury by means of a platinum wire, which passes through a glass tube fixed to the interior of the vessel, and which plunges below the... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1894 - 1272 pages
...the cork is pushed into the tube. Wash the cork thoroughly with •warm water, and leave it to soak in water for some hours before use. Pass the zinc rod about 1 centimetre through the cork. Clean the glass tube and platinum wire carefully, then heat the exposed end of the platinum red-hot,... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - Electric power - 1894 - 666 pages
...thoroughly with warm water, and leave it to soak in water for some hours before use. Pass the zinc rod abeut 1 centimetre through the cork. Contact is made with the mercury by means of a platinum wire abuut No. 22 gauge. This is protected from contact with the other 'materials of the cell by being sealed... | |
 | John Henderson (A.I.E.E.) - Electric measurements - 1898 - 470 pages
...with warm water, and leave it to soak in water some hours before use. Pass the zinc rod about i cm. through the cork. " Contact is made with the mercury by means of a platinum wire about No. 22 guage. This is protected from contact with the other materials of the cell by being sealed into a glass... | |
 | Canada - 1901 - 1306 pages
...This method ensures the formation of a saturated solution of zinc and mercurous sulphates in water. Contact is made with the mercury by means of a platinum...with the other materials of the cell by being sealed in a glass tube. The ends of the wire project from the ends of the tube ; one end forms the terminal... | |
 | George Dudley Aspinall Parr - Electric apparatus and appliances - 1901 - 444 pages
...free mercury throughout the paste preserves the basicity of the salt, and is of the utmost importance. Contact is made with the mercury by means of a platinum wire about No. 22 EWG, which is prevented making contact with the other materials of the cell by being sealed into a... | |
 | George Dudley Aspinall Parr - Electric engineering - 1902 - 496 pages
...free mercury throughout the paste preserves the basicity of the salt, and is of the utmost importance. Contact is made with the mercury by means of a platinum wire about No. 22 BWG, which is prevented from making contact with the other materials of the cell by being sealed into... | |
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... rod can pass tightly ; at the other side bore another hole for the glass tube which covers the platinum wire ; at the edge of the cork cut a nick through which the air can pass when the cork is pushed into the tube. Wash the cork thoroughly with warm... 
