 Ampere, which is one-tenth of the unit of current of the CGS system of electromagnetic units and which is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the unvarying current which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, in...  Philosophical Magazine - Page 1471895Full view - About this book
 | Thomas O'Conor Sloane - Electric engineering - 1897 - 696 pages
...system of electro-magnetic units, and it is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the unvarying current which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, and in accordance with certain specifications, deposits silver at the rate of o.oo111S of a gram per... | |
 | Herschel Clifford Parker - Electric measurements - 1897 - 136 pages
...1893, the international ampere is considered as represented sufficiently well for practical use by the unvarying current which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, and in accordance with the specifications given, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 of a gramme... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Hall, Joseph Young Bergen - Physics - 1897 - 626 pages
...Measurement of Current; Voltameter.- — The ampere is defined * as a current of such strength as, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, in accordance with certain specifications, deposits silver on the cathode at the rate of 0.001118 gramme per second. The... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Hall - Physics - 1897 - 634 pages
...Chemical Measurement of Current; Voltameter.— The ampere is defined * as a current of such strength as, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, in accordance with certain specifications, deposits silver on the cathode at the rate of 0.001118 gramme per second. The... | |
 | Charles Sheldon Hastings, Frederick Elijah Beach - Physics - 1898 - 788 pages
...cell. The legal definition of the ampere, by act of Congress, is " the practical equivalent of the unvarying current, which, when passed through a solution...of nitrate of silver in water, in accordance with standard specifications, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 gram per second." The arrangement... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - Electric engineering - 1898 - 1010 pages
...system of electro-magnetic units, and which is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the unvarying current which when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, and in accordance with certain specifications, deposits silver at the rate of o.ooinS of a gramme per... | |
 | Engineering - 1898 - 516 pages
...following year these unit were made legal by Act of Congress. By this system an ampere is defined as that current which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water deposits silver at the rate of 0.001 118 gramme per second. Certain specifications with respect to... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - Hydrography - 1899 - 202 pages
...system of electro-magnetic units, and which is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the unvarying current which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, and in accordance with accompanying specifications,* deposits silver at the rate of 0-001118 of a gramme... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1900 - 720 pages
...system of electromagnetic units." It is represented sufficiently well for practical purposes by the unvarying current which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0-001118 gramme to the second. The international ohm, as fixed by the... | |
 | 1900 - 516 pages
...strength of the current in amperes is the same. The international ampere is defined as the strength of an unvarying current, which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver and water, deposits silver at the rate of .01725 grain per second. Electricity possesses neither weight... | |
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