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Additions and Corrections to the Lecture reported last week, by DR. OLIVER LODGE. ON page 135, middle of first columnual discharge of negative electrification from the clean surface of metals under the action of light is really a chemical phenomenon. It had been asserted by some experimenters thafthe most oxidisable metals acted most powerfully, but my own experience renders this doubtful; I now find tha> cold platinum and carbon discharge with very fair rapidity, and that nearly all substances have some discharging power. A few materials, cobalt among metals, discharge positive electrification more rapidly than negative. The whole matter is therefore now under investigation.
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The Work of Hertz. Nature 50, 160–161 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050160a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/050160a0