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Page 32 - Cell. 1 —"The fundamental principle of the Edison Storage Battery is the oxidation and reduction of metals in an electrolyte which neither combines with nor dissolves either the metals or their oxides. Also, an electrolyte which, notwithstanding its decomposition by the action of the battery, is immediately reformed in equal quantity.
Page 32 - The discharge of the cell is simply the reversal of the above reactions, the hydrogen reducing the higher oxides of nickel to lower oxides and the...
Page 11 - ... change of density or conductivity over long periods of time. A storage battery is commonly looked upon as a receptacle in which to store electricity. Electricity is not concrete matter. In fact, nobody knows just what it is. Therefore, in the general apprehension of the term, it is not stored. Electricity simply causes a chemical change to be effected in certain substances, when it is caused to flow through them. These substances in endeavoring1 return to their original state, produce electricity.
Page 32 - Battery are, (1) the oxidation from a lower to a higher oxide of nickel in the positive plate, and (2) the reduction from ferrous oxide to metallic iron in the negative plate. The oxidation and reduction are performed by the oxygen and hydrogen set free at the respective poles by the electrolytic decomposition of water during the charge. The charging of the positive plate is, therefore, simply a process of increasing the proportion of oxygen to nickel. The proportions of nickel to oxygen in definite...
Page 32 - Also, an electrolyte which, notwithstanding its decomposition by the action of the battery, is immediately re-formed in equal quantity, and is, therefore, a practically constant element without change of density or conductivity over long periods of time. Therefore, only a small quantity of such electrolyte is necessary, permitting a very close proximity of the plates. Furthermore, it is unnecessary to take hydrometer readings until about three hundred cycles of charge and discharge have been made;...
Page 32 - The relative amounts of oxygen necessary to oxidize nickelous oxide, or NiO, which is the oxide corresponding to the green nickel hydrate used in making the battery, to the various oxides are given in the three reactions: (1...
Page 32 - The chemical reactions in charging the Edison storage battery are: (1) the oxidation from a lower to a higher oxide of nickel in the positive plate, and (2) the reduction from ferrous oxide to metallic iron in the negative plate. The oxidation and reduction are performed by the oxygen and hydrogen set free at the respective poles by the electrolytic decomposition of water during charge.
Page 12 - ... from one to the other, through the solution, as before. All the iron rust in one pocket will be changed to metallic iron, because the oxygen will have passed over to the iron rust in the other pocket, causing this material to possess twice as much oxygen as before. Connect the two pockets to an ammeter and you will find that much more electricity is flowing than before, although the two pockets take up much less space than the two hundred steel plates. The reason of this is, the small particles...
Page 12 - ... now charged and discharged a primitive storage battery. Instead of two thin rusted steel plates, let us mount, say, one hundred such plates, equidistantly spaced, on one rod, and one hundred more on another rod. Now interpose the two groups so the plates of one group will not touch those of the other and immerse them in a solution of potash. When connected to our dynamo the electricity will flow from one group, through the solution, to the other group, converting the oxide of one group to metallic...
Page 32 - From a chemical standpoint a charged condition of the cell would, therefore, be represented in the positive plate by an atomic ratio of nickel to oxygen of at least 1 : 1.5 (or Ni2O3 ), depending on the charge. A discharged condition would be represented...