Electrical Osmose

It was observed by Parret that if strong currents are led into certain liquids having a porous partition between the electrodes, a part of the liquid is carried through the partition, increasing the level on one side. This electric osmose is more manifest in badly conducting liquids. The transfer is in the some direction as that of the current. Electric Arc. Phenomenon produced when a current of electricity of high electromotive force is made to pa acro the air space between two slightly separated conductors, as the two carbons in an are lamp; sometimes called the Voltaic Arc. See ELECTRIC LIGHт. rapidly than one not electrified. Gerney has lately shown that in a bent gla tube containing two portions of liquid, one of which is electrified largely positive and the other negative, the positive portion gradually pa es over to the negative. Only good conductors present this phenomenon noticeably.