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5. On Alterations in the Electric Conducting Power of Alloys at their Melting Point

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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The electric conductivity of metals has been observed to change very greatly at their melting point, the resistance being in many cases nearly doubled when the metal is fused. The experiments recorded in the following communication originated in an attempt to investigate more fully into this fact. The metals chosen for the first observations were tin and lead, both of which have their melting points at temperatures that can be readily obtained.

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Proceedings 1885-86
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1886

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note * page 689 On Eutexia,” Phil. Mag., vol. xvii. 5th series, 1884Google Scholar.

note † page 689 Quoted in Gmelin's Handbook of Chemistry, vol. v. p. 180Google Scholar, Engl. transl. by Henry Watts, in the Cavendish Soc. Works.

note * page 690 Phil. Mag., vol. xiii. 4th series, p. 90.