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THIS battery is founded on a reaction, brought by the authors before the Royal Society† last spring, in which it was shown that if pieces of copper and silver, in contact, were immersed in copper nitrate solution in presence of oxygen, a deposit of cuprous oxide took place on the silver plate with a corresponding solution of the copper plate, resulting from the decomposition of the copper nitrate in the manner shown in the following formulæ:— Before contact is made
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On an Air-Battery * . Nature 7, 472–473 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007472a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/007472a0