XXXVIII. On the electrification at the boundary between a liquid and a gas
XXXVIII. On the electrification at the boundary between a liquid and a gas
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三十八。
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10.1080/14786440808634012
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发表时间:
1922
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H. McTaggart
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H. McTaggart
M ANY years ago, in the course of some experiments ola the effect of an electric current on the motion of small particles in a liquid, Quincke (Ann. d. _Phys. cxiii, p. 513, 1861) observed that small gas-bubbles in water moved as though negatively charged. Although a good deal of attention has been paid to the movement of solid and oE liquid particles in such cases, very little effort has been devoted to the study of small spheres of gas suspended ill a liquid--one obvious reason being the difficulty of controlling them while under observation. _A systematic examination of their electrical properties ought, however, to yield further information as to the physics--and chemistry too--of surface layers. Before the war experiments in this field were begun by the author in the Cavendish Laboratory under Sir JJ Thomson, and some results were obtained. Measurements were made (Phil. Mag. Feb. 1914, p. 297) of the velocity, uuder a fall of potential, of small spheres of air in distilled water and their electrical charges were estimated. The effects on the charge of the addition of minute amounts of various inorganic electrolytes were studied. Resolts were obtained (Phil. Mag. Sept. 1914, p. 367) showing how the charge varies with the presence in the water of certain alcohols and organic acids, and a parallel was shown to exist between the variation of the electric charge and the surface tension.