II. The contact theory of voltaic action.—Paper No. III
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- 31 December 1880
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
- Vol. 171, 15-34
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1880.0002
Abstract
Up to the commencement of 1876 direct experiments on the difference of potentials of solids in contact with liquids had been made by Volta, Sir Humphry Davy, MM. Buff, Becquerel, Péclet, Pfaff, Sir William Thomson, Hankel, and Gerland, and of liquids in contact with liquids by Kohlrausch; but although extremely interesting they were all incomplete, for the following reasons:— 1. The earlier experiments were not carried out with apparatus susceptible of giving accurate results. 2. Owing to the incompleteness of the apparatus, assumptions had to be made not justified by the experiments. 3. No direct experiments had been performed to determine the difference of potential of two liquids in contact, with the exception of a few by Kohlrausch, using a method which appeared to us quite inadmissible as regards accuracy of result.Keywords
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