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The Dropping Mercury Electrode

Nature volume 169, page 240 (1952)Cite this article

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WHEN a drop falls from a mercury jet dipping into an electrolytic solution, it has been assumed that the new mercury surface exposed in the jet is uncharged, and that the charging of the surface takes place comparatively slowly, so that if the drops follow one another very quickly, there will be no time for the mercury ions to pass from the solution to the mercury drop before the latter breaks away; in other words, there is no potential difference between the mercury in the jet and the solution immediately in contact with it.

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NEWCOMBE, R. The Dropping Mercury Electrode. Nature 169, 240 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169240a0

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