The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein, 1836-1862 : with notes, comments and references to contemporary letters / edited by Georg W.A. Kahlbaum and Francis V. Darbishire.
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein, 1836-1862 : with notes, comments and references to contemporary letters / edited by Georg W.A. Kahlbaum and Francis V. Darbishire. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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No text description is available for this image![peroxide of lead etc. Having- alread}' passed the usual limits of a letter, I add only one more observation to my former, and I have done. According to my experiments peroxide of silver proves to be the most powerful means for exciting in iron its peculiar voltaic condition. It surpassed in this res])ect even the peroxide of lead. An iron wire, for instance, one end of which is covered with only a small particle of the first- mentioned substance will not be attacked either by nitric acid of any degree of dilution or by a solution of blue vitriol. The voltaic association of one substance with the other is easily effected by connecting one end of an iron wire with the positive electrode of a pile and by plunging for a few minutes the other end of the wire into a solution of nitrate of silver. I am just about to write a paper on that interesting subject. I am my dear Sir Your's verA' truly Bale Dec 31. 1837. C. F. Schoenbein. Faraday io Scha'ubein. Ro}'al Institution 22 Jan^ 1838 My dear Sir I have received two kind letters from you since I wrote last and must reply although I shall be able to write only a very short letter for now ni}' severe duties for the Season have commenced and I get little rest and not the time I require for experiments and papers. The greater part of the former and the whole of the last of yours I have sent to the Philo- sophical Magazine.' Your results are of the highest interest and must encourage you to work on in the mind which is your ' possession. The consequences which a'ou produce with the ' Phil. iMag. S. 3. vol. 12. 1837. p. 225: On the mutunl voltaic relations of certain peroxides, platina, and inactive iron.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2192899x_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)