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XVI. On the gas voltaic battery.—Voltaic action of phosphorus, sulphur and hydrocarbons

1845; Royal Society; Volume: 135; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rstl.1845.0016

2053-9223

W.R. Grove,

Various Chemistry Research Topics

In a paper which was honoured by publication in the Philosophical Transactions for 1843, I described certain forms of the gas voltaic battery, together with a series of experiments in which different gases were employed as voltaic combinations, and the consequent application of voltaism to eudiometry. To ensure confidence in the accuracy of the eudioinetric experiments, it was essential that the position which I laid down as to the absence of all voltaic action in a combination of oxygen and nitrogen should be rigidly true. I may state with certainty that it is so, but an apparent exception noticed (Exp. 21.) in my last paper obtains during the first few minutes after the circuit is closed, and sometimes for a much longer time. The examination of this temporary action in the first instance, with the view of ascertaining whether it was a specific action of the nitrogen or attributable to adventitious circumstances, led me to the results which I have the honour of laying before the Royal Society in this paper.