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The Behaviour of Sulphate of Lead in a Secondary Battery

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SINCE the meeting of the British Association at Southampton I have made several experiments on the action of sulphate of lead at the negative pole of a decomposition cell, with a view to ascertain, not whether the sulphate was reduced in bulk by the action of the nascent hydrogen, a matter concerning which I had satisfied myself before in the negative, but the less practically important matter whether any trace of metallic lead could be obtained upon the negative plate by this action.

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LODGE, O. The Behaviour of Sulphate of Lead in a Secondary Battery. Nature 26, 596–597 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026596a0

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