An Inquiry Into the Nature of Heat: And Into Its Mode of Action in the Phenomena of Combustion, Vaporisation, &c

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E. & F.N. Spon, 1863 - 99 pages

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Page 68 - are due to a modification, by the electric current, of the chemical affinity of the particles through or by which that current is passing, giving them the power of acting more forcibly in one direction than in another, and consequently making them travel by a series of successive decompositions and recompositions in opposite directions, and finally causing their expulsion or exclusion at the boundaries of the body under decomposition.

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