1730.
Tin, iodide of, electrolysed, 804. ——, protochloride, electrolysis of, definite, 789, 819. Torpedo, nature of its electric discharge, 359. ——, its enormous amount of electric force, 359. Transfer of elements and the current, their relation, 923, 962. Transference is simultaneous in opposite directions, 542, 828. ——, uncombined bodies do not travel, 544, 546, 826. —— of elements, 454, 507, 539, 550, 826. —— —— across great intervals, 455, 468. —— ——, its nature, 519, 525, 538, 549. —— of chemical force, 918. Transverse forces of the current, 1653, 1709. Travelling of charged particles, 1563. Trough, voltaic. See Battery, voltaic. Turpentine, oil of, a good fluid insulator, 1172. ——, its insulating power destroyed, 1571. —— charged, 1172. ——, brush in, 1452, ——, electric motions in, 1588, 1595, ——, convective currents in, 1595, 1598.
Unipolarity, 1635.
Vacuum, its relation to electricity, 1613. Vaporization, 657. Velocity of conduction in metals varied, 1333. —— the electric discharge, 1641, 1649. —— conductive and electrolytic discharge, difference of, 1650. Vicinity of plates in voltaic battery, 1148. Volta-electric induction, 26. Volta-electrometer, 704, 736. ——, fluid decomposed in it, water, 706, 728, 732. ——, forms of, 707, 734. —— tested for variation of electrodes, 714, 722. —— —— fluid within, 727. —— —— intensity, 723. ——, strength of acid used in, 728,733. ——, its indications by oxygen and hydrogen, 736. ——, —— hydrogen, 734. ——, —— oxygen, 735. ——, how used, 737. Voltameter, 704. Voltaic battery, its nature, 875, 989. ——, remarks on, 1034, 1136. ——, improved, 1001, 1119. ——, practical results with, 1136. ——. See Battery, voltaic. Voltaic circles, simple, 875. ——, decomposition by, 897. Voltaic circles associated, or battery, 989. Voltaic circuit, relation of bodies in, 962. ——, defined, 282, 511. ——, origin of, 916, 1741. ——, its direction, 663, 925, ——, intensity increased, 905, 990. ——, produced by oxidation of zinc, 919, 930. —— not due to combination of oxide and acid, 925, 933.