voltameter
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Industrial Apparatus.—We have shown how the very concise researches of Commandant Renard have fixed the best conditions for the construction of an industrial voltameter.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various
Completing his circuit, he permitted the current to continue until 'a reasonable quantity of gas' was collected in the voltameter.
From Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall
His most important contribution at 186 this date was the invention of the voltameter and his enunciation of the laws of electrolysis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
He wished to ascertain what relation this decomposition bore to that of the water in his voltameter.
From Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall
Thus the electromotive force of the disk was opposed by a back electromotive force θε due to the chemical action in the voltameter or battery, to which the wires from the disk were connected.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray
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