Decomposition

Examples

• The signals of his telegraph consisted of the bubbles of gas arising from the decomposition of water, during the action of the electric current. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• To effect that object, it is necessary to employ a voltaic battery separated from the vessel in which the decomposition takes place. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• This brings us to the gist of the ingenious way in which Edison substituted the action of electrochemical decomposition for that of the electromagnet to operate a relay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One-thousandth part of the acid introduced into a vat of gelatine or into decoctions of animal matter, prevents their undergoing decomposition for an indefinite period of time. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The hydrogen gas is so obtained by the decomposition of water, effected by passing steam through highly heated coals. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A single cell of a Daniell's battery, _a_, is connected by wires from its positive and negative poles, with metal rods placed across the decomposition cell, _b_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Are successfully preserved for a length of time from decomposition or deterioration by means of salicylic acid. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Fontana was the first to notice the decomposition of steam by incandescent carbon to form hydrogen and carbonic oxide. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is now made commercially by the mutual decomposition of water and calcium carbide, the latter giving off, when brought in contact with the water, acetylene gas, which rises in bubbles. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The result was his automatic Roman letter system, the basis for which included the above-named general principles of perforated transmission tape and electrochemical decomposition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As before stated, Faraday was also the first to proclaim the laws of electrolysis, or electro-chemical decomposition. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The decomposition of water by electrolytic action was recognized and made the basis of communicating at a distance even before the days of the electromagnet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Until about 1865 the voltaic battery, which generated electricity by chemical decomposition, was practically the only means for producing electricity for industrial and commercial purposes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The most important of these was made by Mr. Bain, who in 1847 applied for this purpose the method of impressing the symbols on paper by electro-chemical decomposition. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Thus the art of electrolysis--the decomposition of substances by the galvanic current, was established. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There may be a succession of decompositions and recompositions before the electrolysis is complete. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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