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Paper, 'Electro-chemical effects on magnetising iron. Part III' by Thomas Andrews

Reference number: PP/14/15

Date: 1889

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Andrews writes: 'In course of an earlier part of this research I made many preliminary experiments to investigate the possible electro-chemical effect between the polished end disks or alternate polar terminals of straight round steel magnets when immersed as elements in some electrolytes, only the north and south terminal planes of each steel magnet being simultaneously exposed to the action of the electrolyte.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes two diagrams of experimental apparatus.

Subject: Chemistry / Magnetism / Metallurgy

Received 3 May 1889. Read 6 June 1889.

A version of this paper was published in volume 46 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Electro-chemical effects on magnetising iron. Part III'.

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PP/14/15
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1889
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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12 pages
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Thomas Andrews

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Thomas Andrews, Paper, 'Electro-chemical effects on magnetising iron. Part III' by Thomas Andrews, 1889, PP/14/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_14_15/paper-electro-chemical-effects-on-magnetising-iron-part-iii-by-thomas-andrews, accessed on 24 May 2025

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